Craig Luebben

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - A climber killed in a 1,100-foot (335-meter) fall on Alaska's Mount McKinley as he tried to retrieve a sliding backpack during an ascent of North America's tallest peak has been identified as a 49-year-old German man.  

THE memory is living on of a Sheffield climber killed while mountaineering in the French Alps. Student physiotherapist James Brownhill, aged 22, died after falling from the Frendo Spur last July. His parents Gary and Christine, from Lodge Moor, set up the ...  

GARDINER — A New Jersey woman was killed after she fell 20 feet while rock climbing at the Trapps cliff area of the Mohonk Preserve Sunday afternoon. State police said Stephanie Prezant, 22, of Haworth, N.J., was climbing with friends when she ...  

Nestled between the San Juan Islands in the Puget Sound to the West and the Cascade Mountains with the scenic Cascade Loop drive to the East, and only 60 miles from Seattle or 90 miles from Vancouver, B.C., Mount Vernon is the gateway to Skagit County.  

Chiloquin, Illinois Valley and Glendale also competed in the meet along with the host Rogue River team. The teams east of the Cascade Mountains head to Lakeview Saturday for the annual Tallman track and field meet. In Tuesday’s boys competition ...  

Voted "America's Best Trail Running Town" by the editors of Outside Magazine, Bend is situated in the heart of Central Oregon at the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. Mature Ponderosa Pine Trees and sagebrush are evidence of the town’s 300 sunny days ...  

Get ready for three days of off-road adventure riding in the Cascade Mountains of Central Washington State. We're excited to return to Leavenworth, Washington where; for the third year in a row RawHyde and Touratech are teaming up to bring you three days ...  

Take a hike into history in the Cascades this weekend. An easy trail into the mountains will reveal remnants of a long ago, isolated Old West town that was once the center of a booming mining operation. At the far end of the Mountain Loop Highway ...  

Nestled in the pristine Pacific Northwest between the Cascades Mountains and the San Juan Islands overlooking Bellingham Bay, Western Washington University, in Bellingham, is ranked by U.S. News and World Report as the finest masters-granting university in ...  

The air was also a bit unstable, and all we needed were the Cascade Mountains to provide lift and, voila!, thunderstorms. It was even more rare to have the pattern repeat itself for a second day and have isolated storms just happen to find their ...  

This natural-color image shows the varied landscape features of that region. Snow caps the peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the Cascades, and isolated mountains outside these ranges. Snow cover recedes in these mountain ranges as summer progresses ...  

KATMANDU, Nepal — A wave of climbers headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday and several people already had made it to the summit in what is expected to be another busy weekend on the top of the world. Last weekend, four climbers died ...  

Of course, Cascades Volcano Observatory scientists also keep a constant, close eye on the mountains in their own backyard. To walk the halls of the observatory's Vancouver headquarters is to be surrounded by a visual history of each volcano ...  

Some thunderstorms formed off the Cascade Mountains early Friday afternoon and then winds in the upper atmosphere steered the storms southwest into the Seattle-Tacoma-Everett areas. Reports of thunder and lightning were scattered across the ...  

Almost 100 climbers have been killed on the job, 50 of them on cell sites. From their perch atop the contracting chain, carriers typically set many of the crucial parameters for work on cell sites, including deadlines, pay rates and even ...