Donald A. Hall Estate Collection

Dizzying Overlook from the Brink of Upper Yosemite Fall (1927)

Standing directly at the precipitous granite ledge at the brink of Upper Yosemite Fall, Donald A. Hall Sr. captured this dizzying high-angle view looking straight down into the abyss. The exposure freezes the roaring volume of water as it accelerates over the polished stone lip, atomizing into massive plumes of white vapor against the dark, fractured canyon gorge 1,430 feet below, demonstrating Hall's daring backcountry exploration along the vertical precipices of Yosemite National Park.