A group of friends were forced to take shelter in a cave during a storm at the top of Yosemite’s most notorious hike -- Half Dome.
Two of them were even struck by lightning, but miraculously, all of them survived and are now back home.
The ordeal was documented in a now-viral TikTok video and it all started this past Thursday when six friends reached the Half Dome summit. At around 12:30 p.m., they noticed a storm was rolling in.
Two members of the group started to make their way back down the cables, while the other four took shelter in a rock cave they found at the top.
That's when things started to get scary.
Lightning started hitting the rocks around them and that’s when two people were struck -- one in the leg and the other in the back of the head.
They still managed to make it through the storm, climb back down a very slippery Half Dome, and eventually make it out of there.
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NBC Bay Area’s Jessica Aguirre spoke to two of the friends, Jordan Dean and Jordan Swendener, about their terrifying experience.
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