20-year-old college student dies after falling from Yosemite's Half Dome hike
Grace Rohloff was an experienced hiker who celebrated reaching the Half Dome summit with her dad just moments before the tragic accident.
An Arizona college student died earlier this month after slipping and falling down during a hike at California's Yosemite National Park, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Grace Rohloff, 20, was hiking with her father on July 13 and had successfully reached the summit of Yosemite's Half Dome, one of the park's most famous and challenging hikes. But while descending the Half Dome cables during a sudden thunderstorm and downpour, she slipped on a wet portion of the rock and fell down the side of the mountain, her father, Jonathan Rohloff, said in an interview with KPNX.
The Mariposa County coroner's office confirmed that the fall resulted in Grace's death.
"She was in between the wooden blocks and slipped to the ground and you know it just happened very fast," Rohloff told KPNX. "There's no way 10 minutes before, when she was up there smiling ear to ear, that I thought I only had 10 minutes left with her. It was a tragedy."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | July 28, 2024 12:49 PM
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That hike has a cable all the way to the top that everyone is supposed to hang on to. Guess she got too confident.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | July 24, 2024 7:49 PM
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The actual trail with hand cables.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | July 24, 2024 7:54 PM
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Fall? Why didn’t she just Rohloff?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 24, 2024 7:55 PM
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[quote[ "There's no way 10 minutes before, when she was up there smiling ear to ear, that I thought I only had 10 minutes left with her. It was a tragedy."
Dude, that's a smirk. God smited her.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | July 24, 2024 8:00 PM
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There was a sudden thunderstorm and it was slippery R1. Did you not read the article?
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 24, 2024 8:03 PM
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There were cables to hold onto did you not see that picture R5?
I have been there, you are instructed to hold onto them at all time. ESPECIALLY when it's raining and slippery.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | July 24, 2024 8:06 PM
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I like hiking but that's a "no, thanks" for me (at r2).
by Anonymous | reply 8 | July 24, 2024 8:12 PM
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One less voter for Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | July 24, 2024 8:13 PM
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Ivana full investigation.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 24, 2024 8:17 PM
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Apparently they had heard thunder in the distance when they were about to start their descent and were expecting to make it down before it any rain began, but the clouds probably moved swiftly. I probably would have done the same thing in that situation. Such a tragic way to go. My condolences to the family.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 24, 2024 8:54 PM
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I did that hike when I was a healthy 33-year-old, and I still consider it one of the physically hardest things I've ever done. Two days later at work, I wouldn't even go "down" a flight of stairs, because I was so beat up. The part with the cables is at the very end, after interminable hiking. And because people are going both up and down the cables, you sometimes have to stray from fully engaging the cables so that everyone can pass.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | July 24, 2024 9:02 PM
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This is a bad idea. Being scalded by the scalding hot geyser is also a terrible idea.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 24, 2024 9:21 PM
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^^Triple no now with that added info about having to step aside for people who are on their way up or down, r12
It feels like that could be managed better, but what do I know?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 24, 2024 9:23 PM
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The Hunky- ish dad said she was FEARLESS
I would say more like
F0OLISH
by Anonymous | reply 16 | July 24, 2024 9:26 PM
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She looked like a fine girl so sad. Shit can happen to anyone count your blessings.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 24, 2024 9:29 PM
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R12- 33 years old- What year was that 1977?
by Anonymous | reply 18 | July 24, 2024 9:34 PM
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R12, thank you so much for putting quotation marks around the word down.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | July 24, 2024 9:41 PM
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Is this the girl from that creepy dwarf family?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 24, 2024 9:47 PM
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Thunderstorm in Yosemite in late June? It can happen I guess but isn't it usually dry at this time? And often fire are blazing around, but a thunderstorm right now, weird.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 24, 2024 9:49 PM
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A ranger warned them that a storm was brewing but they didn't listen and climbed anyway.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 24, 2024 9:51 PM
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Passing thunderstorms happen intermittently in elevated locations, even in the hot summer.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 24, 2024 9:51 PM
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This is why I don't leave my couch.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 24, 2024 10:22 PM
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I think she was distraught that the Pac-12 is no more and ASU is off to the Big 12. It wasn't an accident.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 24, 2024 10:32 PM
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The father Johnathan Rohloff is insanely hot and sad, too.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | July 28, 2024 9:44 AM
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Fir those of you who've never been to Yosemite, add it to your bucket list It is undeniably gorgeous, it smells like a pine tree, and you'll see a zillion stars at night.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 28, 2024 12:49 PM
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