Thousands are drawn to the top of Half Dome every year. They don’t all descend the same way. In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies
- Snowboard In 2000, Jim Zellers became the first snowboarder to shred down the Dome, completing what he called “The Half Brain Project.” He later told Snowboarder magazine that it probably would have been safer just to BASE jump off the summit.
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- Climb the Cables Hordes of Yosemite visitors scale the rounded east face’s final 400 feet using a steep cable ladder affixed by park rangers. Coming back down the slick granite is even trickier for exhausted hikers, causing frequent falls and a dozen deaths over the last 15 years. No flip-flops, people!
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Getty Images 3. Fly Despite strict prohibitions, BASE jumpers regularly fling themselves off the Dome and other Yosemite landmarks. Experienced locals Dean Potter and Graham Hunt perished in 2015 when they jumped from Taft Point wearing wingsuits, failed to navigate across a ridgeline and crashed.
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Thousands are drawn to the top of Half Dome every year. They don’t all descend the same way.
In order to view the video, please allow Manage Cookies
1. Snowboard
In 2000, Jim Zellers became the first snowboarder to shred down the Dome, completing what he called “The Half Brain Project.” He later told Snowboarder magazine that it probably would have been safer just to BASE jump off the summit.
What It’s Like To Ski Half Dome’s Most Dangerous Line
Read article
Getty Images
2. Climb the Cables
Hordes of Yosemite visitors scale the rounded east face’s final 400 feet using a steep cable ladder affixed by park rangers. Coming back down the slick granite is even trickier for exhausted hikers, causing frequent falls and a dozen deaths over the last 15 years. No flip-flops, people!
What It’s Like To Ski Half Dome’s Most Dangerous Line
Read article
What It’s Like To Ski Half Dome’s Most Dangerous Line
Jump into America’s Newest National Park: New River Gorge
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3. Fly
Despite strict prohibitions, BASE jumpers regularly fling themselves off the Dome and other Yosemite landmarks. Experienced locals Dean Potter and Graham Hunt perished in 2015 when they jumped from Taft Point wearing wingsuits, failed to navigate across a ridgeline and crashed.
Jump into America’s Newest National Park: New River Gorge
Read article
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