Half Dome

Type: Location

As of November 2026, Half Dome has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Feb 2026). Half Dome is used to illustrate early-career under-preparation, acute fear, and later filming that combined separate scary moments into one narrative.

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 over 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