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FAIRBANKS - A Fairbanks mountain climber was rescued from a mountain north of Nome on Saturday after breaking both legs in a fall the day earlier.Andy Sterns, 46, at...
...impressive and includes professional and collegiate basketball players, internationally known mountain runners, mountain climbers of national fame, Olympic medalists, baseball pioneers, the founder of the Iditarod, a five-time Iditarod champion...
...was able to land and pick up both Gillis and rescuers.Given their backcountry experience - Bull is an experienced mountain climber and skier while Gillis has competed in several ultra-endurance ski and wilderness races - the two geologists might...
...Mountains. In a strong, rhythmic voice, it also tells the story of conservationist George Schaller and his team of mountain climbers who followed the chiru for several springs before discovering where they calved. Icy colors predominate in the...
ANCHORAGE - Two mountain climbers, a tourist, and a pilot were killed Wednesday when their small plane went down in Denali National Park and Preserve, according...
...There were no other casualties in the incident. Hope fades for missing climbers ANCHORAGE - Hope is fading for two mountain climbers missing on one of Alaska's most difficult peaks, as search crews figure the two women have been without food and...
ANCHORAGE - Mountain climbers face a risk that has nothing to do with falling, blizzards or exhaustion: diarrhea. The condition hit almost one in three climbers...
...The last fatalities on Foraker occurred in June 1992, when two climbers were swept off by an avalanche. Five mountain climbers have now died this year in Alaska. In April, two died on Mount St. Elias in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park...
PETERSBURG - Rescuers hoped weather would clear today so they could recover the body of a mountain climber who died in a weekend fall on Devil's Thumb, about 120 miles southeast of Juneau. Marc Springer, 30, of Layton, Utah, died...
...the tram, and asked if I could be there," said Pauser. "I said yes and grabbed my gear." Pauser, a trained mountain climber, coordinated a ground search and started up the steep mountain at 6:45 p.m. The search party found 40-year-old...