Deadly El Cap still draws climbers
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Imagine standing under the spray of a garden hose with your arms over your head and cold water running down your armpits. And you are hanging a couple thousand feet in the air and, while you
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The fate of the other two climbers who set out with him to climb the 11, 239-foot peak last weekend remained unclear today.
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By Hillary Borrud, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Sep. 20--HESPERIA -- For years, pressure to build a Ranchero Road underpass has come from frustrated motorists funneled through Main Street, the only east/west corridor across the BNSF Railway in the city.
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LA CONCHITA, Calif.  - Rescuers who pulled six  bodies from the mud and debris of a huge southern California  landslide said on Tuesday that 13 people might still be trapped  under the rubble.
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DESPITE all the warnings, we reached what we thought was the Puerto de las Yeguas, highest point in the Tormantos mountains of western Spain, by midafternoon.
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The death toll continues to climb, but so does the number of survivors of the epic earthquake and tsunami that struck South Asia and Africa this weekend.
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At least three people have been killed in weekend avalanches in Utah's backcountry, and a fourth man remained missing.
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The people who remember the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 are not as fearful as they were then, with scientists predicting a less powerful eruption.
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Fighting rages around the Tora Bora caves once more, the last place the Al Qaeda leader was spotted.
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YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. Two climbers who had refused offers to be helped off the face of Yosemite National Park&#39;s El Capitan relented today and are back on the ground at this hour.
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SAN JUAN IXTAYOPAN, Mexico -- A pair of wooden crosses outside the elementary school are all that mark the macabre site where, just weeks ago, an angry mob captured two federal police officers, beat them unconscious, and set them on fire.
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After a week of searching, a body of a climber lost on Oregonâs Mount Hood was found in a snow cave near the summit.
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By WILLIAM McCALL     VANCOUVER, Wash.  -- Geologist David Johnston wouldn't have died on Mount St...
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Two climbers on Mount Hood fell into a crevasse Thursday, killing one and injuring the other, authorities said.
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Three climbers who fell from a ledge while ascending Mount Hood have been located and rescuers were using ropes to reach them late Sunday, while five others who were stranded have been taken down the mountain to a lodge, according to rescue officials.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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HOOD RIVER, Ore., Dec. 17 -- Rescuers looking for three missing climbers on Mount Hood found a body Sunday in the area where one of the climbers made a distress call a week ago, authorities said.