Yosemite's most underrated trail, like many of the park's most popular routes, gets its name from historical figures. Olmstead Point was named after landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and his ...

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Scientists say they’ve extracted some of the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in northern Quebec. The rocks have ...

The North Pole Dome has long been studied as a site that might show the earliest signs of life forming on the planet. How do we know a meteorite hit? The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion ...

The first person to ever summit Half Dome did so in 1875, and in the 44 years that followed, the only way to reach the top was to scale the cliff face with climbing gear. To help non-climbers ...

The large, dome-like structure of Grand Portal allowed boats to pass through it in the 1800s before it collapsed in the early 1900s. It can still be seen today from the Chapel-Mosquito trail loop ...

College student dies in fall at Yosemite Half Dome — her tragic last words to her dad by: Jordan Unger Posted: Jul 25, 2024 / 04:50 PM EDT Updated: Jul 25, 2024 / 05:44 PM EDT ...

A young student told her father her shoes were slipping on the slick granite rock as they descended the Half Dome cable system in Yosemite National Park. Moments later, Grace Rohloff slipped and ...

Grace Rohloff, 20, was hiking with her father, Jonathan Rohloff, when she tragically died when she fell while hiking the behemoth rock formation, Half Dome, at Yosemite National Park on July 13.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. — An Arizona father is advocating for safer conditions for hikers climbing Half Dome in Yosemite. That's after his daughter slipped and fell to her death during a rain ...