The rockfall did not affect the cable route to the top of Half Dome that is popular with hikers. The rockfall took a thin sheet of rock measuring roughly 100 feet by 200 feet — about 800 cubic ...

YOSEMITE VALLEY, Calif., July 8 (UPI) --A slab of rock, approximately 200 feet in length, fell off Yosemite National Park's popular Half Dome in California, altering the the classic climbing route ...

It comprised all of Pitch 12 on the Regular Route on Half Dome. The flake didn’t damage any of the climbing route below Pitch 11, but left an almost featureless scar in its absence and a bevy of ...

A popular climbing route at Half Dome in the Yosemite National Park may have been altered after part of the iconic granite monolith's face collapsed last week, officials said Tuesday.

One of the most iconic climbing routes in Yosemite National Park ... Some 200 triangular flakes of granite peeled free from the Robbins traverse approximately 1,000 feet high up Half Dome during ...

Climbing Half Dome is risky. The solution, if we're concerned about safety, is to completely remove the cables, not enhance them.

Half Dome — an icon of the park that is visible throughout Yosemite Valley — is scaled by hundreds of experienced climbers each year using ropes and cams inserted into rock fissures for leverage.

Backers of a proposal to allow an unlimited number of people to hike to the top of Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome seem to ignore the obvious: This is nuts. Because permits from the ...

The rockfall did not affect the cable route to the top of Half Dome that is popular with hikers. The rockfall took a thin sheet of rock measuring roughly 100 feet by 200 feet — about 800 cubic ...