I’ve hiked Half Dome four times. I consider myself an experienced hiker, but even so, every time I complete the cable section I breathe a huge sigh of relief. The final 400-foot climb to the top ...

There he learned the benefits of using light 4mm tech cord for rappelling down short sections, like the 300-some feet of Half Dome's Death Slabs, where he and Milligan used it to anchor off trees ...

A fall from that height — on the climbing cables that mark the final 400-foot ascent to the summit of Yosemite's Half ... death, the goal is to get park officials to commit to making Half Dome ...