Rising almost 5,000 feet above the Yosemite Valley, Half Dome is the most demanding day hike in America. It's also one of the deadliest.
. Yosemite opens the cables from May through October and awards 250 preseason daily permits in March, plus an additional 50 permits the day before.
Although our party was all in good shape, this endurance hike challenged all of us. It even took the life of a woman in her 30s that we encountered on our way down.Although demanding, slippery, and sometimes even deadly, virtually every Half Dome hiker makes it out alive. Although Yosemite doesn’t publish detailed numbers, just one in well over 100,000 hikers per year dies on average . Although sobering, those are terrific odds—10 times safer than driving a car, in fact.
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