Half Dome isn’t a ski objective. The gentlest slope off the iconic 8,839-foot summit in Yosemite National Park is a 45-to-60-degree granite wall—usually hiked over the course of a long ...

Given Half Dome’s incredibly steep topography and smooth climbing surface, summiting was for years considered an impossible feat, said Michael Ghiglieri, who co-authored “Off the Wall ...

The earliest picture in “Discovering Ansel Adams,” at the Cincinnati Art Museum through Jan. 19, 2025, is “Half Dome in the Clouds, Yosemite, California” (1916); there are trees in the ...