Half Dome cables are back up for the 2019 summer hiking season. Yosemite National Park made the announcement on social media Thursday by posting a photo of a helicopter hovering over the granite ...

Climbers negotiate the steep pitch of the cable section of half Dome. Photos taken at Half Dome on Saturday, June 30, 2007. Photo by Michael Maloney / San Francisco Chronicle ...

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 ...

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 ...

To the editor: My suggestion for making Half Dome safer is to take the cables down. Not just part of the year, as is done now, but all year. (“After a young woman falls to her death in Yosemite ...

The most famous -- or infamous -- part of the hike is the ascent up Half Dome's cables. The two metal cables allow hikers to climb the last 400 feet to the summit without rock climbing equipment.

Half Dome cables are up in Yosemite National Park, California for the the 2019 summer hiking season. Permits are required. Here’s more information about how to prepare and enter the lottery for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...