A man is dead and his son is lucky to be alive after a tragic day in the Karwendel Range in Austria. While the two were hiking on the popular Mittenwalder Hohenweg trail (pictured above), an 11-year-old boy was struck by lightning. He was burned and tossed off a cliff onto a steep slope where [...]

A rescue team in Chamonix Valley, France (pictured above) was flooded with calls in a single day. In total, the team responded to six different calls involving 9 hikers and climbers.

Here is a breakdown of the day’s events:

- A German became lost under the summit of Mont Blanc (pictured above). He was hiking with [...]

A 17-year-old girl fell into a 15-foot deep crack while hiking with her family in Hueco (pronounced “way-co”) Tanks State Historical Site in Texas.

The park is a popular climbing destination, but the girl was simply hiking with her family when she slipped and fell backward into the crevice. A tree broke her fall, but she [...]

A young couple received burns when a gas canister exploded while they cooked inside of their tent. The 25-year-old man received serious burns to the bottoms of his feet and his right arm. The 21-year-old woman was burned on her feet.

They were camping at Shell Island in North Wales. Both were taken to a local [...]

A 30-year-old man broke both of his legs and suffered life-threatening injuries after falling off of a rock in Linville Gorge (pictured above), North Carolina.

Jakob Holly, of Asheville was hiking alone. He was unable to walk so he attempted to crawl back to his campsite. The man even put sandals on his knees to cushion [...]

In two separate rescues yesterday, cell phones aided hikers to safety.

In the afternoon, a family was coming down from the summit of Mount Chocorua (pictured above), a 3,490-foot peak in the Sandwich Range.

A 12-year-old boy in the family visiting from Florida hiked ahead of the group and took a wrong turn at a junction. He [...]

A man hiking a 24-mile route around the North York Moors (pictured above) in the UK was found dead in a ditch on the trail.

The retired man had already hiked the route in May, but he wanted to make the trek again on the way to the check presentation at a local pub in Boosbeck. [...]

God bless America. And God bless the American flag. Without it, Trisha Patterson’s night would have been a lot colder.

The 12-year-old girl was hiking with her family in the Lewis Peak area in Walla Walla County, Washington. She began hiking ahead of her family and became separated from the group when she took the wrong [...]

A rock climber was rappelling in the Rattlesnake Point Conservation Area in Canada when his gear suddenly failed and he plummeted 20 feet onto some rocks below. Small cheese compared to some of the falls I’ve written about recently.

There is no word on his specific injuries, but none are believed to be serious. Rescue was [...]

An angler is said to be “extraordinarily lucky” to be alive after being trapped under a 5-ton Mini Cooper-sized boulder in a cold creek for more than 16 hours.

52-year-old Dean Ririe was fishing alone in Little Cottonwood Creek when his foot became wedged underneath a huge rock. He was screaming for help while submerged in [...]