To the editor: I have climbed Half Dome 13 times ... for making everything completely safe. The cables are dangerous. Running into a bear in Little Yosemite Valley is dangerous (as we did once).

It is those cables that guide hikers to the summit of Half Dome. While most visitors are content to gaze at the iconic Yosemite site from the valley floor, the best viewing is at Sentinel Bridge ...

The short film by Carl Boenish that documents the flight carried out by Rich Piccirilli, Jim Hanbury and Brian Johnson from Half Dome (Yosemite) that marked a pivotal moment in the history of BASE ...

An unidentified male hiker slipped from the cables on the famed Half Dome in Yosemite National Park Monday afternoon, and fell to his death.

On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of granite in the heart of Yosemite ... on Half Dome without a rope.