Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday, stating he ...

Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday and said he ...

Yosemite climbers hang upside-down flag protesting job cuts: ‘We need help’ A group of climbers, some who used to work for the Park Service, intended to raise awareness about how recent ...

Group claims responsibility for hanging upside-down Stars and Stripes off of El Capitan in Yosemite. Demonstrators unfurled a giant ‘Distress flag’ after 11 full-time Yosemite staff members ...

The group again scaled El Capitan to hang the flag upside down. As they pulled it up, Vince said he could hear cheers from the crowd below. “They’ve seen it, ...

An upside-down American flag was hung on a Yosemite summit to protest job cuts by the Trump administration. ... The flag was seen hanging Saturday on top of the park's famous El Capitan summit, ...

Why there’s an upside-down American flag hanging in Yosemite National Park. Yosemite employees hung the flag over the side of El Capitan to protest the recent downsizing that took place as part ...

An image of an upside-down U.S. flag hanging off the side of the famous El Capitan peak in Yosemite, for instance, spread across Reddit and Instagram. One post stated, "Brilliant protest.