Permits Were Supposed to Make Climbing Half Dome Safer—They Haven’t
The idea made perfect sense. Limit the number of people who simply show up to Yosemite’s Half Dome to climb the famed cable-assisted granite peak on a whim, and accidents would be lessened. Eight people had died climbing Half Dome in the preceding decade, so, citing overcrowding on the trail up to the roughly 8,000-foot […]