SARTs, or Search and Rescue Transponders can be used to help rescuers pin point your location if you need to take to a liferaft. SARTs are active devices that transmit a signal which can be picked up ...

This article was originally featured on Undark. On May 5, 2023, a 19-year-old hiker named Matthew Read headed out on a roughly 12-mile trek in an underpopulated part of Glacier National Park in ...

A few years ago a Scottish mountaineer who was descending Broad Peak—a menacing, 26,400-foot Himalayan crag on the Pakistan-China border—fell from an ice cliff. His team, inferring an accident had ...

On a blustery morning in Dayton, Ohio, eight firefighters from around the country stand in front of a 20-foot concrete cylinder with the words "BELL TOWER" spray-painted on the front. They're here for ...

The warmth and sunshine of summer makes it an especially ideal time in Oregon to recreate outdoors and experience the state’s bounty of hiking trails, rivers, mountain peaks and other scenic ...

JOSHUA TREE, Calif. — It’s 4 p.m. in Joshua Tree National Park and the air temperature is hovering around 99 degrees — relatively mild for an August afternoon. But at ground level, the sand along the ...