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When a rescue team came on Luke Gullberg's body at the top of a Mount Hood glacier and tried to figure out what had become of his climbing partners, they looked up at a forbidding rise of ice and snow.
Five days into the search for two missing climbers, authorities in Oregon were piecing together a theory about what may have gone wrong as hope dwindled that the pair would be found alive.
A military helicopter searched upper elevations of Mount Hood on Monday, as rescuers held onto hope that two experienced climbers would be found alive after a third member of their party was discovered dead over the weekend.
Two climbers have been rescued after falling 300 to 400 feet down a slope in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Rescuers struggling through high winds and blizzards recovered the body of a second American climber Monday after an avalanche buried a team of three U.S. mountaineers in southwestern China last week, an official said.
Searchers have found the bodies of two Japanese climbers a year after they disappeared on Alaska's Mount McKinley, thanks to high-resolution images captured during a recent search for another missing climber, park officials said Friday.
An Argentine official is identifying the fourth climber to die in a week on Aconcagua mountain as a 42-year-old Briton.
Three Italian climbers were flown to safety and a third alpinist died Friday in Argentina following a blizzard on the highest mountain in the Americas.
A Connecticut man has pleaded not guilty to endangering the public by scaling part of The New York Times' skyscraper in midtown Manhattan.
A record number of climbers scaled Japan's Mount Fuji during the summer season and deaths and injuries rose as many underestimated the trek, city officials said.
An Italian who survived an avalanche that killed fellow climbers on the world's second-highest peak said Wednesday poor equipment and a mistake by a porter contributed to the tragedy.
A Dutch woman watched her husband and three children fall to their deaths Thursday while climbing near Mont Blanc, Europe's highest peak, Italian rescuers said.
Organizers of a Himalayan climb say bad weather has delayed a helicopter rescue for two Italians descending a mountain in Pakistan following the death of a fellow climber.
Karl Unterkircher, one of the world's top mountaineers, died when a bridge of snow masking a crevasse on Pakistan's "Killer Mountain" gave way under his tentative step, his surviving colleagues said Friday.
Bridget Pierce called her fiancé, Jonathon Guilford, on his mobile phone at 2 p.m. May 16 when he was on a break from his job as a cellular-phone tower maintenance climber on a project in Indiana.
A French daredevil in trouble for scaling a skyscraper to press for action on global warming should be honored instead of prosecuted, his lawyer said Wednesday.
A pair of climbers who misjudged the weather on Mount Hood and got caught in whiteout conditions were brought to safety Tuesday after spending a night in a snow cave.
At least one mountain climber has died and more than 100 people, including several from Russia, Australia and Germany, were stranded in northern India's Himalayas after heavy snowfall, an official said Saturday.
Climbers over age 60 are three times more likely to die on Mount Everest than the average mountaineer, according to study results released Wednesday, as more older people try scaling the world's highest peak.
Thanks to a high-tech electronic gadget and a big warm dog named Velvet, three climbers rescued after a harrowing fall and a night in the wind and cold high on Mount Hood are expected to be fine.
Trevor Liston saw one friend, then a second, then a third disappear over an icy ledge on Mount Hood. A black Labrador mix plunged over as well. That left Liston and four others wondering what had happened to their companions — two women and a man. They used a rope to lower one of their climbing party over the edge, trying to spot the trio. But there was no sign of the three.
Three climbers who fell from a ledge on snowy Mount Hood were huddled into their sleeping bags for warmth early Monday as rescuers waited for daybreak to zero in on their position despite blowing snow and ferocious winds.
The discovery of a dead climber in a snow cave up Mount Hood brought a sad conclusion to a long week of anxious optimism among family and friends gathered here to await news of three missing men.
Crews searching for three climbers on Mount Hood found mountaineering gear and a snow cave in the area where one of the climbers made a distress call a week ago, officials said Sunday.
Rescue teams headed up the flanks of treacherous Mount Hood on Monday to search for three climbers reported missing in heavy snow, but were ordered off the mountain when conditions became too dangerous.
New varieties to solve climber shortage and low yield in coconutKOCHI: Hybrid and dwarf palms may finally be the answer to a vexing problem faced by Kerala, the largest producer of coconuts in the country
Dog winched to safety after cliff fallA dog trapped on a cliff edge was winched to safety by a 20-strong team of rescuers after it bounded away from its owners during a walk in Cornwall.
Aussie climbers trapped: avalanche warning 'extreme' - World - smh.com.auAn extreme avalanche warning and bad weather has delayed attempts to rescue a group of six Australian climbers who last night activated an emergency beacon in the mountain range above Mount Cook Village, New Zealand.
Generous donation gives Nipomo family who lost everything in house fire a new beginningCouple took baby up 3,200ft fell A couple who tried to climb England's highest mountain with their 14-month-old son were condemned as irresponsible yesterday after the family had to be rescued.
Acetazolamide for Mountain SicknessWill mountain sickness become a thing of the past?
Survival Prospects Appear to Fade for Elite U.S. Climbers Missing in ChinaJust as in the case of the missing Mount Hood climbers, hopes of finding two elite U.S. mountaineers missing in the Himalayas appears to be fading.
Rescuers Search for American Climbers in ChinaElite American mountaineers Charlie Fowler and Christine Boskoff are presumed missing in southwestern China, and search efforts are focusing on a remote region near Tibet where they apparently wanted to climb two isolated mountains, including an unnamed 23,000-foot peak.
China tries to gag climber witnessesSadly, no surprises here.... (quote) Chinese diplomats in the Nepalese capital of Kathmandu are tracking down and trying to silence hundreds of Western climbers and Sherpas who witnessed the killing of Tibetan refugees on the Nangpa La mountain pass last week.
Doctors Aim High For Altitude StudyResearchers to climb Everest for a better understanding of acclimatization.
PRC Troops Shoot Tibetan Regugees in Full View of Everest ClimbersWithin sight of horrified climbers preparing an assault on Everest, Chinese troops stationed on the Tibet-Nepal border have shot dead at least two Tibetan refugees trying to cross the border.The refugees were trying to reach Nangpa La pass last Saturday and the Everest advance ba …
Did Everest climber Sharp have to dieDave Watson assumed his friend had crawled into an unoccupied tent at one of the high camps to rest. Sharp had turned around just shy of the summit twice before, so Watson knew the Briton was a smart climber.
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