Half Dome Cables - Yosemite National Park - Ascending - June 3, 2013 

My Grandfather, who is still alive and kicking at 100 yrs old. Put those cables up on half dome as well as helped to build the golf course at Yosemite. He always told us when we were growing up that he was proud of the work he did there as a young man part of the California Conservation Corps.

Never had so much anxiety sitting on my desk chair!!!!

Good job. Brings back a fine memory. Did this in 1992 with wife and 15 year old daughter and 78 year old stepfather. He got the cheers when he reached the top. That man was in good shape.

Apparently this is how my parents got to school every morning as a child

Just watching that guy sliding down at 11:15 is killing me! Omgawd

I am so grateful to have accidentally come across both your ascent and descent go pro videos of the cable route on Half Dome. In 1978 I hiked this trail, from the valley floor up and back, in one day. I was a 37 y/o woman hiking alone. Though I had seen photos of the cable route, when I came over Little Dome and saw what was before me I could barely believe it. Then I girded myself for the upward journey figuring I hadn't come all that way to turn around. It was one of the most memorable events of my life and I never expected to experience (or relive) it once again until I came across your RU-vid videos. Thank you, from my heart. Peace, BJ

Thank you for doing this for many people that can't.

I am more amazed of who drilled those holes and placed everything.

Live near Yosemite. My girlfriend has climbed it twice but it's not on my bucket list. This is why God created postcards.

my hands and feet are sweating watching this!

"And why do we do it? The view. The view." - Conrad Anker

This is the closest thing yet to actually hiking up Half Dome. You managed to capture the incredible scale and the great height. It's definitely not for anyone who is even a bit nervous about heights. Exceptional clarity.

Hey there! I was the girl in front of you guys in the pink shirt. Fun times! Forgot how long it took to get up the cables. Was just talking about hiking up half dome and remembered how someone behind me had a GoPro so I looked it up. Thanks for the video!!

If you're afraid of heights but still want to scale HD, the trick is to don't look up or down. Just take it one step at a time and focus on the few feet in front of you.

Made it to the base of el cap last September a whopping four hundred feet! Realized my knees, heart and lungs could no longer handle it. At 68 y/o that ship has sailed for me. Sad. Appreciate anyone who can film it. It’s quite a feat. Congrats to one and all for completing their dream. You are all rock stars I’m my book. I would consider it if Jimmy Chin or Alex Honnold took me up there. Lol

Far far steeper than I expected it to be!

Thanks for this video. I started getting sick as you ascended. I"ll never do this climb. But thanks for doing it for me.

Thanks for posting! This was one of the best videos I've ever seen. Watching in the comfort of my living room, I felt vertigo, and shortness of breath. Excellent video. Would like to see the downward journey, also. Congratulations on the excursion!!

I'm so scares of heights, I can barely watch this lol

I am pleased to see many things in this video. One, the shot of people backing down the cables. I thought I was a big wuss for doing that in 1976 when I went up for the first time. The second was that big CRACK you had to get over near the very top. I had forgotten about that CRACK up until now, but I remember thinking how in God's green earth was I able going to make it up and over that thing (I did). Thanks for the memories, Gabe.

I have been up this several times. My kid first time at seven ( harness, rock/mountaineer stuff volunteering help). Before the kid could make it, empty cables up (we started early), outside cables down. They got the technique. Board, test step test step, and good to go for the next board. When it is busy it is only one cable you can use. When you get almost to the the top there is a sketchy big step up where the cables are not as much help. Then before you know it you are at the top. There is an amazing amount of room at the top.

It surprises me that there are not two lanes of cables. One for ascending and one for descending. There's always congestion at places like these, and particularly when you least want it. If a sudden thunderstorm appeared, everyone would have to get down the cables in a hurry, and a single person freezing or panicking in the middle of the cables could put many more in danger.

I'm shitting myself watching this, just want to say respect to the people that have done this or about too.

Thank you for posting this. I have loved Yosemite since I went there the first time when I was 21. I live in Northern California and go there whenever I can. I used to not be afraid of heights, and I had a goal to climb this by the time I was age 50. Now I am almost 62 and after watching this, I know for sure I couldn't do it now. But thank you for taking me along. I wish the lens was not wide-angle, though, (not complaining, just an observation!) as it was difficult to get perspective when you looked off to the side and other times. I got a bit dizzy, LOL! I didn't plan to watch the entire 22-minute video, but I DID! Some of those large packs people are wearing really seem a danger to me. Thanks again, guys!

ive been to yosemite . i hiked up angel falls all the way to north dome and back in one day . i would not do the halfdome cables without a harness and double clip system . thanks for sharing

Just looking at this video Made my thighs sore Came back last week from Yosemite Did the mist trail to Vernal falls My first time at Yosemite Next time I go I'll be ready for half dome Then go to the meadows at 8100 feet Yosemite is soooo beautiful Breath taking 😇🐻🦌❤️🇺🇸😇

I'm getting dizzy just watching this. thanks for sharing!

Imagine making it up to the top and some dude comes crawling up over the edge with no ropes...Alex Honnold is wild. Great vid btw, really captured the hike well.

What a fabulous video of the cables. These cables set Half Dome apart from almost all other hikes. What a great experience. So many ppl were going down backwards. In my three times using the cables, I've seen a few, but not as many as in the video.

I did this hike 23 years ago, thanks for sharing, and the great camerawork.

I'm very happy just to watch this on RU-vid, thanks!!!

Beautiful! I am amazed by climbers, living vicariously through you. It’s something I’d always wanted to do, but was cut short by an accident that disabled me... Now my sons climb and boulder and I love to watch them. It’s inspiring!! New sub💜happy trails

I made it to the top in 2004, wow 10 years ago, the cables didn't look so bad back then, although I was scared I don't remember it as being difficult, now after watching this, in my mid 30's, I don't know if I could do the 11 miles hike plus the ascending to the top again...Awesome video, brought great memories!!!

The best perspective of any I've seen, especially the beginning and end. Thanks!!

What an amazing panorama!

best half dome video on the Internet, RU-vid , on the planet .!!! Gave us a real perspective on the grade and difficulty ... thank you

thank you for sharing your ascent and descent!!!!

Как-будто там побывала! Поджилки тряслись! Уфф! Супер! Адреналин полный!

This is making the bottoms of my feet sweat. 😳

i did this once a few years ago.. never again. it was pretty terrifying, the rock at places can get pretty slippery.

Wow, Yosemite National Park Rock Mountain is so beautiful. It's nice to be able to safely climb the mountain. Happy New Year. 👍👍👍🤝🤝🤝🤙👌💯💯💯

that looks insane, great views. rip to the young woman.

At home with a broken foot, want to be where you guys are - amazing !

idid the climb in 1977 an experience i will never forget

My husband and I succeeded in climbing half dome this week. We were so happy that we: started at 5am, brought a lot of food, 2 L water and a water filter and had gloves that we bought from OSH....the gloves saved the day. Your arms need to be able to pull you up the cables. We did a hike in LA....up Mt Baldy, that was more difficult than half dome. Don't underestimate the "sub dome" either.....so glad we did this.!!!

Not everyone can say “ I climbed the half dome “ so congratulations guys 😀

What an awesome video!.....and adventure.....thanks for sharing.

very impressive . 2h/rs. bottom to top . I'm.really impressed. from Illinois .

An important thing to bring is good pair of gloves. I see people in gardening gloves and there are a mound of ramshackle gloves at the base of sub-dome, but I would recommend a decent pair of climbing gloves. And a good traction on your shoes for the descent down to eliminate slipping.

Watch this video...i can't control my heartbeat...

Wow !! I got so tired watching this intense video that I need to lay down on the couch. Seriously.

one of the best videos of the HD cables

that looks so much easier than when i did it back in like 2005. there were so many people that there was a major bottleneck and you only got one cable because one cable was for ascending and the other was descending. on top of that people would freak out and sit down, blocking the inside of the cables, so you would have to hang outside of the cables to go around them. it took about 45 minutes to get up and 45 minutes to get down.

Awesome video! Can't wait to be there later this year!!

I used the cables way back in 1979. Back then all the vertical poles were very wobbly and I remember thinking, WTF???, Yosemite officials approved this wobbly death trap cable rig??? The vertical poles look firmly attached in this vid, thank God, I didn't think I was gonna make it back in 1979.

Thank you for posting this vid and congratulations! :)

Awesome video! I was there just 2 days after you and wished I had a Go-Pro. Your video brings the memory of my own ascend alive.

Looks so steep!

Did this a couple of years ago and passed a guy with one arm, near the top of the cables as I was heading down. He was clipped on, which made sense, but I figured if he could do it I shouldn't crow too much myself! Even so, best walk I'll ever have.

Just won a spot for saturday sept 26th.. any idea about crowds on a weekend late sept? Also, why don't more people clip in with a caribiner like the guy at 7:55, seems to be a safer way to go for all that are concerned.

I got to go climb that, looks like good therapy for someone who is afraid of heights like myself. I get so terrified but it doesn't keep me from doing anything and you wouldn't know by looking at me, but in my mind I would be fighting panic every second of the way! haha!

awesome.. so glad its done with a go pro. the wide angle always serves well

I know my fear makes no sense, but part of my fear of such heights is the thought that I may jump. How crazy is that? It’s just an irrational fear that I have of heights.

I'm gonna try this with my hoverboard.

Anywhere that's so common and accessible where you don't feel the need to say hello to strangers, is a tourist attraction.

Beautiful 🌎

Wow! Amazing view!

Thanks for taking me with you guys! The only way I could ever see it! Awesome job!! Now you have to get down! Lol

9:12 that woman looks pretty unsteady, scared me a bit

The Poor Man’s Half Dome is North Dome. It’s not a very long hike from the Tioga Road and the beauty of North Dome is the spectacular view of Half Dome

I feel unsafe on my bed...

Wonderful! Thanks for posting!

I'd be wearing a harness with a couple leashes on to climb that.

Amazing. Thank you so much for posting this!!!

Such a great video. I hope to do this some day.

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks :)

That´s just amazing!

I Really enjoyed this video, all I need to do now is convince my other half that we are going on a little hike next weekend.

Best video of half dome.

Sketchiest part is 13:14, people really underestimate this part of the hike, when I did it last year i only used 1 carabiner and still felt so wobbly and dizzy from the massive size of everything around, definetely the most exposed point of Yosemite besides El Cap.

Lane for people climbing down should be separate.

I completed the climb at 61.. I hope to take my grandkids up when they turn 10:)) I didn’t enjoy the 19 miles round trip in one day nor do I like the park.. but it was a bucket list item so I’m happy

Fortunately for me, my many times up the cables came long before permits were required and also at a time before such crowding. Having spent much of my youth in Yosemite, I certainly understand the attraction.

Impressive! I went up the Mist trail last week, and one of my life goals will be to climb up to half dome.

Did it. 1999. Sunny day just like this. I was a backpacker, and I found it easy. The rock was sticky dry and you're always holding onto cables and there's cross slats spaced all the way up. A lotta people going up and down; no one fell. It was fun, not at all terrifying. Everyone going up and down seemed relaxed, just like in this video. The coolest part? Getting to the top and then going over to the face, and getting on my stomach to inch up to the edge and looking down over the face. Now, THAT was terrifying. Why? Because the flat top angles down slightly to the edge of the face, so you feel like you're gonna slide over the edge. It took me three tries, each time getting up and looking at how slight the angle was, before I felt confident enough to inch back out and get my face out over the edge. And my reward was better than anything I expected. Why? Because I got to see climbers coming up the wall. What an awesome sight and moment that was: to have climbed the cables, be on top of Half Dome, being on my stomach peering out over the face, AND see climbers coming up the wall. 20+ yrs later, and I still vividly remember the yellow and red helmets of the climbers. Life memory...

I hiked it in '82 and '83. In those days, one could camp overnight on top. Great views both during the day and at night.

This is one of the many things I want to do before I die.

Zero interest being behind strangers and their unknown abilities

I was in Yosemite on June 3, 2014, but I didn't go to half dome. I probably took your picture with my telephoto lens from Glacier Point.

Never did Yosemite, but I did “sleep” in the stone hut atop Mt. Whitney one time. Coldest night of my life in a dacron bag.

GoPro is amazing. I was too little to go up, but my brother did. I only made it to Vernal Falls when I was about 10, born in Yosemite in 1947 at Lewis Memorial Hospital, no more live births there anymore. Janie Ross (Christensen)

I have climbed these cables 3 times. The view from the top is the most magnificent thing I have ever experienced. I fell 165 feet rock climbing on Washington column (across Tenya canyon) in 1983. I would love to stand on the summit of Halfdome again, but I don't think it is going to happen.

I would love to climb that one day. I grew up in the countryside and climbed a lot of high and dangerous things as a kid (I'm lucky to be alive). I haven't climbed anything in years because I moved to the city. I would love to climb this and feel like a kid again.

Thank you for this video.

Every summer I use to take my Boy Scout troop on a five day hike through Yosemite and we would always hike to the top of half dome.

I'm afraid of heights, I would freeze if I tried.

Been to Half Dome more than 5 times, back in the days it was crowded and dangerous, no lottery or anything like that. The only fact is you MUST BE FIT, the hike alone to the base will drain most people, making it harder to be back on time to Curry Village before night time. Lottery or not, you must be fit or take your chances.

I hiked it from the valley floor up! Now that's a hike!

Thanks for posting your video. I learned something very valuable for my trip this July. Those people that you passed that turned their back to the inside need to use their heads. There's very little room as it is. Then they take up more space by facing outward, subsequently placing their pack directly in your path, to let you pass. I'll just wear my mountaineering harness and clip onto the cables using a leash or short length of rope and carabiner so I can walk outside the cables. I won't have the patience to deal with people operating way outside their ability, not exercising common sense, and risking everyone's safety.

First 19 minutes feels like there's no end to this steep climb. 😰