It was so easy to find great views of El Capitan, Half Dome, and areas across Yosemite Valley. Tunnel View was easily the ...

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 ...

Half Dome in Yosemite looks like a perfect postcard picture in a recent webcam view Tuesday morning. The beautiful view comes from the webcams from the Yosemite Conservancy, which shows Half Dome ...

Last year, in an attempt to cut down on traffic gridlock and overcrowding during busy summer weekends, Yosemite officials required that visitors obtain an entrance reservation for their vehicles ...

One of the world's largest granite monoliths, El Capitan, along with Half Dome are ... That's because Yosemite Valley features many of the park's top attractions, including Tunnel View and a ...

But the view was quite different: to the east the magnificently jagged tops of the snowy Sierra and to the southwest the totem of Yosemite, Half Dome—but not its oft-pictured side. Rather ...

The essential gear that Jason Torlano and Zach Milligan used to survive their historic ski descent of Half Dome to the Yosemite Valley floor. When looking through the photos of Jason Torlano and ...

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 ...

This story appears in the May 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a bright Saturday morning in September a young man is clinging to the face of Half Dome, a sheer 2,130-foot wall of ...