Bob Madgic is a retired public-school administrator and now a full-time writer on the outdoors. He lives in Anderson, California.
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On the evening of July 27, 1985, five hikers made a fateful choice to climb Yosemite's fabled Half Dome, even as the sky darkened and thunder rolled. By night's end, two would be dead from a lightning strike, three gravely wounded, and desperate EMTs woul... SEE MORE