Half Dome Yosemite - 1838 - a photo on Flickriver

            This early winter photo was taken looking across the Merced River with Half Dome as the background was Taken on a very cold morning at the end of November. 

Half Dome is a quartz monzonite batholith at the eastern end of Yosemite Valley in Yosemite National Park, California. It is a well-known rock formation in the park, named for its distinct shape. One side is a sheer face while the other three sides are smooth and round, making it appear like a dome cut in half. It stands at nearly 8,800 feet above sea level and is composed of quartz monzonite, an igneous rock that solidified several thousand feet within the Earth. At its core are the remains of a magma chamber that cooled slowly and crystallized beneath the Earth's surface. The solidified magma chamber was then exposed and cut in half by erosion, therefore leading to the geographic name Half Dome.[3]

As late as the 1870s, Half Dome was described as "perfectly inaccessible" by Josiah Whitney of the California Geological Survey.[4] The summit was reached by George G. Anderson in October 1875, via a route constructed by drilling and placing iron eye bolts into the smooth rock.[5] Anderson had previously tried a variety of methods, including using pitch from nearby pine trees for extra friction.[6]

Anderson subsequently went on to add ropes to his eye bolts, so that other people could climb. Among those who took advantage was the first woman to climb Half Dome in 1876, S. L. Dutcher, of San Francisco. In 1877 James Mason Hutchings along with Anderson led a climb which included Hutchings' daughter Cosie, his son Willie, his mother-in-law Florence Sproat, aged 65, and two other women.[6][7]

Taken in: United States / California / Yosemite Village (show map)

Taken on: November 29, 2024

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