The grieving family of a former state park ranger has warned that no-one can take their safety for granted after it took nearly three weeks to find his body in the Yosemite wilderness. Kirk Thomas Olsen, 61, pictured with niece Holly Leeson was found dead in Yosemite on Saturday, nearly three weeks after setting out on its Ostrander Lake trailhead …
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 …
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — A bucket-list climb to the top of Yosemite National Park's Half Dome turned to tragedy for a young Arizona woman who fell to her death during a descent forced by a sudden storm that pounded the iconic granite monolith this month. Hiker falls to death during storm on Yosemite's iconic Half Dome Grace Rohloff, 20, …