After a 15-minute drive to Half Dome, the duo had to hike the so-called “Death Slabs” approach to reach the rock face. Normally the hike, which includes Class 4 scrambling, takes three hours ...

The rock has triggered a psychological phenomenon called face pareidolia. This is the tendency to see human facial features in inanimate, or lifeless objects. In 1976 the same phenomena birthed ...

To some, it’s a rock. To others, it looks like three-quarters of a human face, lying on its side with distinct features including deep eyes, a wide nose and sad-sloping mouth. The rock-face ...

Cliffs close cliffA vertical rock face. along the coastline do not erode at the same pace. A cliff is a steep rock face. When a stretch of coastline is formed from different types of rock ...