Whenever someone dies on Yosemite’s Half Dome while climbing or descending the infamous cables section, I am always surprised. Not surprised it happened. Surprised it doesn’t happen more frequently.

More than a few hikers have faced dire consequences in pursuit of Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome summit. Some have gone into cardiac arrest. Others have been struck by lightning. Still more ...

I'd just hiked the grueling 7.5 miles from Yosemite Valley up to the base of the storied Half Dome cables, and though I'd researched the trek plenty, my first reaction to seeing the cables up close ...

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

Will Dunn owes his life—and maybe his marriage—to his REI Co-op Half Dome tent. “The tent was a gift from my now-in-laws before we were in-laws,” he says. “It was my first backpacking tent, and it got ...