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. 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. Rohloff said …
The last rays of light dance across the top of Half Dome in this view from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park. “It just seems unnecessarily dangerous.. I’ve done so many hikes in so many places, and that one just seems like they could easily put more reinforcements.” Angels Landing in Utah, which is considered one of the most dangerous …
A college student who slipped and fell to her death while hiking in Yosemite with her father said, 'dad, my shoes are slippery' seconds before she plummeted. Grace Rohloff, 20, plunged 200 feet down the treacherous Half Dome after she lost her footing while descending cables on the cliff. She and her dad Jonathan Rohloff are both experienced hikers but …
