KVSP Hiker
NPS (ALPINE, TEXAS) — A hiker has been found dead at a national park in Texas after authorities discovered a car had been parked for several days and launched a search and rescue operation, officials said. The body of the unnamed 24-year-old hiker was discovered in Big Bend National Park in Texas on Monday after […]
Chaffee County Search and Rescue South/Facebook (SALIDA, Colo.) — An insurance underwriter who was rescued on a central Colorado mountain after allegedly being left behind by his co-workers was hiking to raise money for World Central Kitchen, according to his company. The hiker, 46-year-old Steve Stephanides, was rescued on Saturday after enduring a night stuck […]
(NEW YORK) — A hiker who was stranded on the side of a cliff in the San Francisco Bay Area is speaking out exclusively to ABC News for the first time since being rescued. Cody Cretini said he had been on a beach walk with his girlfriend on Easter when he decided to take a […]
(NEW YORK) — A hiker who was stranded on the side of a cliff in the San Francisco Bay Area is speaking out exclusively to ABC News for the first time since being rescued. Cody Cretini said he had been on a beach walk with his girlfriend on Easter when he decided to take a […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A hiker who had been missing for over a week in Big Bend National Park has been found safe, according to authorities. Christy Perry, 25, had been missing since Nov. 9, when she did not show up to her camping reservation at the Texas national park, according to the […]
Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A search is underway in Big Bend National Park for a hiker who has been missing for over a week, according to to authorities. Christy Perry, 25, has been missing since Nov. 9 when she did not show up to her camping reservation, according to the National Park Service. […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (REEMS CREEK, N.C.) — A woman who was hiking through Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina this weekend fell 150 feet from an overlook to her death, park officials said. Nancy Sampson, 61, of Greer, South Carolina, reportedly fell off a steep cliff at the Glassmine Falls Overlook around noon Saturday, according to […]
Valais cantonal police / Kantonspolizei Wallis (LONDON) — The body of a hiker who has been missing for 37 years has been unearthed on a thawing glacier near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. A 38-year-old German mountaineer was reported missing after failing to return from a hike in Sept. 1986, the Valais cantonal police […]
STOCK PHOTO/Getty Images (BIG PINE, Calif.) — A summer avalanche took the life of a hiker and injured two others in California, investigators said. The unidentified hiking party encountered a wet slide avalanche while descending Split Mountain on July 2 around 4:30 p.m., the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday. The hikers had reached the […]
Daniela Simona Temneanu / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A missing teenage hiker was rescued from chest-deep snow in Montana’s Glacier National Park after going missing for three days, officials announced Tuesday. Rescue personnel found 19-year-old Matthew Read at 11 p.m. on Monday. Two Bear Air rescuers saw a thermal heat signature in heavily forested […]
