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Tragic death raises troubling questions about safety on Yosemite's Half Dome
She and her father made the same choices along the path that thousands of Half Dome hikers make throughout the summer. While Yosemite officials haven’t released any information about the death ...
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Yosemite is one of the deadliest national parks in the U.S. — and there’s one main reason
Only Lake Mead National Recreation Area and the Grand Canyon National Park rank higher than Yosemite in number of park deaths with 204 and 134 fatalities, respectively. A third of the deaths at Lake ...
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A perilous summit in Yosemite has caused at least 300 accidents in the last 15 years. Here's why people keep slipping and falling.
Though the rock formation, known as Half Dome, has become one of Yosemite's most iconic symbols ... 290 accidents, and 12 deaths. (This excludes data from 2010, when the park issued a new permit ...
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Half Dome 1977 and the pioneering flight in Yosemite
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 ...
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Half Dome
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 ...