A 55-year-old man was killed by falling rock after summiting Mount Hood on the Elliot Glacier route (pictured above), one of the most difficult routes on the mountain.

The man, reported to be a doctor from Eugene, was hit by a rock and knocked down the mountain. His body came to rest at the 9,000-foot level [...]

An experienced hiker tweaked her knee on the Dog Lake Trail in Millcreek Canyon, Utah but waited until morning to call rescue.

Heidi Patterson and her hiking partner Collin Buck said they didn’t want to “drag anyone out in the middle of the night. So we just waited ‘til morning and called.” What a courteous couple. [...]

A 7-year-old girl is in critical condition after she lost her footing and fell 40 feet near Silver Cascade Falls, part of the popular Helen Hunt trail in Colorado.

Initial reports are conflicting, but authorities believe the girl was hiking above Helen Hunt Falls (pictured above) near Cascade Falls (pictured below) and slipped. She fell 20 [...]

Yesterday I posted a story about a man who was reported missing near the Cerro Alto Campground in Central California.

Today authorities believe they found the body of the missing hiker identified as Lance Erik Leage, a 42-year-old from Morro Bay. Authorities still need to confirm the identity of the found body.

The body was found [...]

Thanks again to Art of Seattle Mountain Rescue for the info.

A group of English spelunkers were exploring the caves of the Steinbrücken-Höhle (which means “stone bridge cave”, pictured above) in Toten Gebirge near Altaussee in Styria, Austria when one caver fell 25 meters into a deep shaft.

He lived through the fall and broke his femur [...]

Search and rescue teams are feverishly searching for a 42-year-old man reported missing near the Cerro Alto Campground in California’s Central Coast.

The man, who may be from Morro Bay (a coastal town in the Central Coast), was last seen by a friend on a hike when they became separated.

He was wearing flip flops, board [...]

Thanks to Art of Seattle Mountain Rescue for submitting this story.

A 12-year-old boy and his 9-year-old friend went on an adventure they will never forget. On Thursday, the two boys had an idea to climb the “klettersteig” route in the Hochstegklamm (pictured above) near Mayrhofen.

Neither of the boys had the proper equipment for the climb [...]

Leonard Alexander Phease, a 19-year-old New Zealand student from Otago University died after slipping off of a ridge in Mount Aspiring National Park in the southern Alps of New Zealand.

Phease was wearing regular running shoes while traversing a steep and icy section below Liverpool Hut (circled in picture above) when he slipped and fell about [...]

A man hiking alone fell an unknown distance high above Turnagain Arm in Alaska. Jacob Nist, 30, of Anchorage was hiking near McHugh Creek, up on a mountain, when he fell. It is unclear how he fell.

Nist called for help on a cell phone. Anchorage Fire Department responded but was unable to navigate through [...]

A bicyclist ate pavement near the Craggy Gardens picnic area in North Carolina. The 61-year-old bicyclist was riding with his friend through a steep and curvy section of the road when his front tire clipped his friend’s back tire. The man, who was traveling at about 30 mph, was thrown from his bike and suffered [...]