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.

Hikers use cables to make their way toward the Half Dome summit in Yosemite National Park in 2015. (Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. - Anthony Frost was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. "My heart was pounding. My boots started slipping, and that kind of spooked me," ...

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The cable handrails that allow visitors to pull themselves up Half Dome in Yosemite National Park are joining a long list of other sites on the National Register ...

Kirk Keeler surveyed the scene from a vantage point he hadn’t reached since his 20s. To the north he saw the flattened granite of Clouds Rest and in the distance the jagged pyramid of Cathedral Peak.