A woman and her 8-year-old son in New Jersey’s Sourland Mountain Preserve wandered off trail and were unable to find the marked trail on Tuesday.

The mother and son became lost and were unable to locate the trailhead. The woman called 911 on her GPS-enabled cell phone. The dispatcher used the GPS coordinates and plotted her [...]

A 22-year-old man in Yosemite National Park was missing for four days after he told friends that he wanted to be alone for 30 minutes to read his bible. When the man’s friends returned about half an hour later, he was gone.

More than 100 search and rescue personnel from Tuolomne were dispatched to the area. [...]

A 50-something-year-old man was hiking with a friend when they wandered off trail and onto a steep ledge near the Cape Horn Overlook trail in Washington. The man hugged a nearby tree to avoid a 30-foot fall. He held on for three hours before a rescue crew reached him.

It is unclear if the tree was [...]

Pemba Doma Sherpa fell at 8,000 meters (that’s 26,246 feet for all you dumb Americans) in Lhotse, the world’s fourth tallest peak, south of Mt. Everest. She was 32. Another sherpa died in the fall.

Ms. Doma Sherpa is a legend in Nepal. She was the first woman to climb the world’s tallest peak on the [...]

Yesterday I posted a story about a missing man in Hanging Rock State Park. The 24-year-old hiker walked into the visitor’s center this morning around 10 a.m.

The man went bushwacking through a gorge and couldn’t find his way out in the dark, so he decided to hunker down and find his way out at [...]

A 33-year-old Portland man used his cell phone to call for help after getting lost in the Hunchback Mountain area near the Mount Hood wilderness.

Chad Tabler called 911 Sunday night and was rescued 5 a.m. Monday morning. Tabler did not prepare for an overnight stay in the mountains. He was wearing a shirt, shorts, hiking [...]

Here’s another story of someone a little smarter than Aron Ralston, the guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from a boulder.

Emily, a 20-year-old from Washington, was trapped under a boulder when the one-ton rock shifted on top of her foot.

Emily was hiking up Mount Hood near McNeil Point, a popular trail [...]

News of a different type of death in a national park – – -

Four hundred kangaroos and wallabies are scheduled to be shot in Maria Island National Park in Australia. The animals are being killed to deter overpopulation, which causes malnutrition and disease among the animals.

Annual culls (defined as select killings of surplus numbers) started [...]

Authorities are searching for a missing 24-year-old male in Hanging Rock State Park, North Carolina. His mother reported him missing on June 25 when he didn’t come home that night.

Search and rescue teams began their search at 11 p.m. The 28-person team is hopeful they’ll find the man today since this will be the [...]

I’ve made way too many mistakes in my backpacking life. Some due to inexperience and others because of complete stupidity. Here is one of my stupidity mistakes.

My friend, Mike, and I decided on a Wednesday that we were going to backpack on Saturday through Sequoia National Park. For some reason we made a pact not [...]