[socal_parrot]

Another one. Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year.

[socal_parrot]

I believe this is the 3rd Half Dome death this year. This is the first year they are controlling everyday access to the cables on Half Dome, requiring a permit. I think this shows limiting the amount of hikers to make it safer hasn’t worked and the only people benefiting from that program are the folks scalping the permits.

[Huck]

I’ve never understood this type of thrill-seeker personality. To each his own, but to me it’s such an artificial way to get a thrill. Same as skydiving. Like I said, to each his own, but I prefer the thrill of activities that also have a substantive, productive purpose. I look at unnecessary risk as a jinx.

[Roccus]

Another one. Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year.

That's IT!
Time to close Yosemite. Aside from the fiscal savings of staff, maintenance and recovery efforts, if it saves just ONE life......

[JoeProBono]

[ElkGroveDan]

Officials suspect that a mysterious force causing acceleration of 32 feet per second, per second which has been known to affect climbers on the rock face, may have been the cause.

[ClearCase_guy]

officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death

Gravity?

[Red Badger]

Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening.

Gravity?.....................

[FiddlePig]

News flash! The Obama Administration has announced due to the many accidents caused by gravity… it’s been declared potentially dangerous to Americans. Therefore it must be regulated. Gravity shall be added to sugar, salt, tobacco, trans fats, guns, incandescent light bulbs and most of all liberty… as hazardous to health. It shall be regulated as the “Secretary sees fit”... because our “Great Leader” cares.

[Future Snake Eater]

Spock: I have been monitoring your progress.
Kirk: I'm flattered. Twelve hundred points of interest in Yosemite and you picked me.

[Big_Harry]

“Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening.”

Gravity! :>)

[afraidfortherepublic]

I have 2 friends from high school who climbed the FACE of Half Dome back in the 1950s. It took 2 days, as I remember, and they slept in rope slings on the face of the dome over night. They are both still alive today.

[SZonian]

Once you start rolling, there's no stopping.

Prayers for the hiker and his family.

[org.whodat]

“Mama said stupid is as stupid does.”

[Mad Dawgg]

"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Yosemite National Park officials are trying to determine why a man fell to his death while climbing Half Dome Monday evening."

I can help out here.

In a word: GRAVITY!

[DaxtonBrown]

[trying to determine why a man fell to his death ]

I’m thinking gravity might of had something to do with it. And trying to defy it.

[OC_Steve]

Seventeen deaths in Yosemite this year

Now I the real reason you aren't going to Yosemite with us this year. You're working on getting 100% of the inheritance!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

so there’s a half dome someplace other than Minneapolis?

[Moltke]

To all those who said 'Gravity':

[Marko413]

I climbed it with my father and brother almost 20 years ago. Without knowing more details, I’ll venture and say that anyone who falls was probably doing something they knew they shouldn’t. The cables aren’t near as bad as you think, but going outside of them is asking for trouble. At the top, there wasn’t any railing so you have to be careful about getting close to the ledge. The area at the top is huge so if you want to avoid the edges, that isn’t hard to do. Just like the waterfall deaths, I think this guy was doing something that he shouldn’t have been doing.

[isom35]

Could be a serial killer.