The Half Dome cables in Yosemite National Park come down today, signaling the end of the busy period on this iconic trail, and drawing a line under what has been a deadly summer. The final 400 ...

Visitors to Yosemite National Park hoping to hike its famed Half Dome Trail will have to wait at least one week due to heavy snowpack conditions.

The Half Dome cables protect the last 400 feet of an eight-mile hiking route to the top of the iconic batholith. The cables section is a Class III scramble with high-consequence exposure.

A fall from that height — on the climbing cables that mark the final 400-foot ascent to the summit of Yosemite’s Half Dome — could easily be fatal.

Grace Rohloff's death has renewed concerns about the safety of hiking Half Dome in Yosemite, where at least 10 people have died in the last decade.

An Arizona college student died this month after she slipped and fell from the Half Dome cables at Yosemite National Park, a family member told NBC News on Wednesday.

Newsletter: Half Dome isn’t safe because nature isn’t safe. Hike accordingly Visitors catch a glimpse of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park in 2017.

Grace Rohloff, 20, lost her footing on July 13 while she and her father, Jonathan Rohloff, were hiking the park’s Half Dome cables, her father told SFGate.

The "Half Dome Cables and Trail" join the Fullerton, Calif., post office, the Island City, Mich., historic district and the shipwrecks of many Minnesota inland lakes and rivers that were ...

A hiker fell to his death at Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, according to the National Park Service.