He never expected to have to be airlifted off Half Dome for a tumor he had no idea he was harboring. A year later, he was ...

More than a few hikers have faced dire consequences in pursuit of Yosemite National Park’s iconic Half Dome summit. Some have ...

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 ...

Rising more than 1,500 metres above Yosemite Valley and 2,682 metres above sea level, Half Dome is one of the most challenging hikes in Yosemite. Spanning more than 30km, the hike is suited to ...

But the view was quite different: to the east the magnificently jagged tops of the snowy Sierra and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side. Rather ...

Mountain Time on the first day of March, people across the world hovered over keyboards and smartphones, ticking away the ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. 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 ...

Legendary climber Zach Milligan, who skied down Half Dome in Yosemite, dies after an ice climbing accident in the Canadian Rockies. Legendary free-solo climber Zach Milligan was found dead at the ...

mural-sized gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, The Cleveland Museum of Art and The Friends of Photography exhibition labels on the reverse ...