YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — 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 ...
Half Dome's cables have been around for more than a century. The cables are crude and dangerous — and have fascinated adventurous souls from the start. (Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times) Clinging for ...
The sheer rock face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park has lured recreational climbers for more than 100 years. The rock has also claimed at least 20 lives. Twenty-year-old Grace Rohloff became ...