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, …
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 …
