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Article: Injured climber rescued from Yosemite's Half Dome
AP Worldstream;  February 24, 2009 ;     554 words ... ... Yosemite National Park's iconic Half Dome and was stranded on the granite ... plucked from the northwest face of Half Dome by a helicopter crew and flown ... and able to hunker down in his sleeping bag as temperatures dipped below freezing ...

Article: HALF DOME ISN'T ANY EVEREST, BUT IT'S CERTAINLY NO ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  September 10, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... have Mount Everest. Average Joe has Half Dome. It has come to this in the energy bar ... better say you made it to the top of Half Dome. . . and mean it. Thanks largely to ... mind-set, summiting 8,842-foot Half Dome has become the grail pursued by Yosemite ...

Article: Climb up Half Dome, if you dare; Hiking at this ...
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  July 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. Then he almost ... Bakersfield, said after carefully backing down Half Dome's cable route to level ground. "When ... I'm amazed I made it halfway." Half Dome is the 8,842-foot granite monolith ...

Article: Half Dome climb a peak life experience
Oakland Tribune;  August 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... mile round-trip jaunt to the summit of Half Dome. Anyone with hiking boots and a healthy ... South San Francisco middle schoolers up Half Dome this summer and all but 10 had enough ... on taking about 30,000 steps on the Half Dome trail, gaining almost a mile in elevation ...

Article: Cables, courage a must to climb Half Dome
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  July 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... was just 200 feet from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. Then he almost ... said after carefully backing down Half Dome's cable route to level ground. "When ... I'm amazed I made it halfway." Half Dome is the 8,842-foot granite monolith ...

Article: Yosemite's Half Dome is a peak life experience.
Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA);  August 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... mile round-trip jaunt to the summit of Half Dome. Anyone with hiking boots and a healthy ... South San Francisco middle schoolers up Half Dome this summer and all but 10 had enough ... on taking about 30,000 steps on the Half Dome trail, gaining almost a mile in elevation ...

Article: YOSEMITE: You need cables _ and courage _ to climb Half ...
AP Worldstream;  July 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... feet (60 meters) from the summit of Half Dome when he lost his nerve. Then he almost ... teacher, said after carefully backing down Half Dome's cable route to level ground. "When ... I'm amazed I made it halfway." Half Dome is the 8,842-foot (2,652.6 ...