“I need you to sit down,” the doctor told Kirk Keeler, a nature photographer who grew up in Sonoma County and is now living in Nevada City. Keeler had just had his first colonoscopy and was still ...

Half Dome's cables have been around for more than a century. The cables are crude and dangerous — and have fascinated adventurous souls from the start. (Jack Dolan / Los Angeles Times) Clinging for ...

Good morning. It is Saturday, Aug. 17. Here’s what’s happening in Opinion. Last month, 20-year-old Grace Rohloff slipped and died descending from the summit of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park.

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...

Kirk Keeler surveyed the scene from a vantage point he hadn’t reached since his 20s. To the north he saw the flattened granite of Clouds Rest and in the distance the jagged pyramid of Cathedral Peak.

Clinging for life to a cold steel cable, high on a nearly vertical rock face in the Sierra Nevada, the soles of my hiking shoes simply could not find traction. Again and again, as my forearms trembled ...