Yosemite National Park is investigating a freak and deadly accident involving fallen tree branches that claimed the life of a 29-year-old Google software engineer.

Jonathan Rohloff is still reeling from the horror of watching his 20-year-old daughter slide to her death off Yosemite's Half Dome. He said his request for more safeguards on the century-old ...

A fall from that height — on the climbing cables that mark the final 400-foot ascent to the summit of Yosemite's Half Dome — could easily be fatal. So I clenched my fists tighter and inched ...