A brown bear about 8 feet tall and weighing approximately 500 to 800 pounds attacked a 21-year-old woman while she returned from a hike near the Kenai Princess Lodge.

Abby Sisk, of Ogden, Utah, was attacked just 25 yards from the lodge, where she works as a housekeeper. Sisk was being dragged by the bear with [...]

Thank you to ::COUGH:: ahem, someone (who would rather not be named) for sending in his story of a hiking accident.Last week while hiking on the very popular Snow Lake Trail near Snoqualmie Pass, a very experienced unidentified member of an unidentified mountain rescue unit took a full face nosedive in front of other hikers [...]

Two campers on a remote island in Quebec were struck by lightning while hunkering down in their tent during a thunderstorm.

Kim McNairn and Les Perreaux were on a six-day kayak trip through the Cabonga Reservoir. A thunderstorm approached around 2 a.m. and while Kim was counting the seconds between lightning and thunder, the tent [...]

Talk about minimalist. And I thought barefoot hikers were crazy.

More than 100 search and rescuers, eight dogs and two helicopters are looking for a Polish man who was hiking naked nearly 2,000 feet up Mt. Esja (pictured above) in Iceland. Two women spotted the man hiking naked and ratted him out to authorities.

Rescuers found [...]

Details are surfacing on the tragic story of a mother who watched her entire family perish on Mont Dolent, a peak part of the Mont Blanc Massif.

The mother, Ada De Jong, was on a mountaineering vacation with her husband and three kids. The plan was to summit Mont Dolent. Ada stopped and took a break [...]

The British mountaineer who made a solo summit bid of Shimshal Whitehorn was advised not to make the attempt because of poor weather conditions. Ben Cheek, 28, of Manchester decided to make the attempt despite warnings. He left on July 11 for a four-day trip. He still hasn’t returned and is now 8 days overdue. [...]

Search and Rescue crews have been searching for Judy Payne, a hiker who went missing on Monday. Today, they found the woman dead at the bottom of a gorge. Rescuers believe the woman was hiking in the area, hopped a fence toward the edge of a cliff and accidentally fell 200- to 250-feet to her [...]

Patrick Higgins, the man who was missing in Hell’s Canyon in Colorado (read the original post here), was found today by a Civil Air Patrol plane. He was spotted waving his arms and wearing the same clothes he was wearing a couple days ago – gross.

A Colorado National Guard helicopter was able to fly lower [...]

A British climber in Pakistan is missing after he left his group and attempted to summit Shimshal Whitehorn in the Karakoram range.

Benjamin Cheek, a 28-year-old research biologist, originally traveled to Pakistan part of a British-Canadian climbing team that was going to climb Distaghil Sar, a 25,000-foot peak in the same range. Weather put that goal [...]

Two hikers, both hiking solo, were found today in Allegheny National Forest, in Northwest Pennsylvania. Search and Rescue was initially searching for Jonathan Hill, 21, of Watson, PA. He went on a solo hiking trip and was reported lost later that night on the Hickory Creek hiking trail.

But while officers were out looking for Hill, [...]