A lost 17-year-old tramper (Kiwi for “hiker”) was found thanks to night vision goggles aboard a rescue chopper.

The teen was solo hiking in Wainuiomata, New Zealand when she became lost. She was stuck on the mountain – cold, tired and out of water. She used her cell phone for help. But she didn’t know her [...]

A 38-year-old mountain biker from Bend may have suffered a broken collar bone after he went over the handlebars on the Flag Line Trail in the Dutchman Flat area.

Edward Wakefield was mountain biking with a friend when he somehow went head over heels. He was wearing a helmet and his friend was able to [...]

A 24-year-old woman suffered serious leg injuries in a fall near McGillicuddy Reeks in Ireland.

The woman was hiking alone when she fell a “considerable distance.” Because of the terrain near the accident scene, a helicopter was not able to airlift the woman off the mountain.

Rescuers are carrying her down on a litter. Search and [...]

A 62-year-old man died after falling 70 feet in the Grand Canyon. The man was on a river rafting trip and fell about 1 ½ miles from Stone Creek near the Colorado River.

It is unknown what the man was doing or why he fell. Authorities said the man did not survive the fall. A search [...]

Two hikers from Massachussets stranded on an 18-inch ledge in the North Cascades were rescued after the pair managed to make their way to a glacier and a rescue chopper was able to find flat ground to land on.

The two were hiking the Ptarmigan Traverse and somehow became stuck on the ledge. They also managed [...]

A couple days ago, I posted a story of a father, mother and their daughter taking a 200-foot plunge off of Sharp Edge in the UK.

The father and their daughter were airlifted off the mountain with serious, but non-life threatening injuries. But the latest report is that the mother has died.

The family was hiking [...]

Two Climbers died in an avalanche while climbing Mount Athabasca, an 11,453-foot mountain in the Canadian Rockies.

A climbing party that had already descended the mountain alerted Mounties that they had seen two climbers in the area of the avalanche. When the Mounties confirmed the climbers’ car was still in the parking lot and they had [...]

A hiker died during an ascent of Snowdonia in North Wales. The accident happened on the Crib Goch Ridge section (pictured above) where hikers teeter on the edge with a drop off on one side and a steep slope on the other.

He fell off the north side of Crib Goch Ridge, but I am not [...]

An injured 14-year-old hiker was rescued via helicopter from the Carter Lake area of Colorado. The extent of her injuries and how the accident took place are unknown.

We do know the girl was hiking with a group of 8 to 10 people. One of the adults in the group was carrying a satellite phone and [...]

A search and rescue mission is underway after a family of three fell 200 feet from Sharp Edge (pictured below), a treacherous scramble up Blencathra in the Lake District of UK.

The mother, father and six-year-old daughter were traversing the rocky ridge known for its slippery rocks and moss-covered ledges. Somehow all three fell from the [...]