Kauai Fire Department firefighters rescued a 78-year-old visitor from Alaska on the Nounou East Trail, also known as the Sleeping Giant Trail, in Wailua on Saturday.

Yanick Ueltschi of Switzerland teamed up with two local Pakistanis to try the 7,795m peak. But crevasses slowed them down, then the weather turned.

Their biggest challenge soon became privacy, or finding enough time and space away from other hikers to be like any other ...

The Garden of the Sleeping Giant is located in the foothills of the Nausori Highlands. The highlight here is the garden's collection of vibrant orchids. Once part of a private collection owned by ...

Jack Tragni, Vaishnav Raja and Justin Yang were rescued on Sunday, Feb. 9, from a New Hampshire mountain after they were stranded by Mount Lincoln for nearly 12 hours in the snowy and windy conditions ...

A 67-year-old Ridgefield man was saved Friday after a hike at Coldwater Lake became a rescue mission. The man went hiking about 7 miles northwest of Mount St. Helens at about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, ...

Dressed in hiking gear and standing in front of part of the world’s highest mountain ranges, Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, look the picture of health. The Prince ...

The first years of this decade have already provided ample evidence that it’s important to get away from our daily lives from time to time. And you don’t have to suffer the airport hordes or ...

The highest outstanding student debt in the UK has topped more than £250,000, figures obtained by Money show. One student now owes £252,554 - a record high, labelled "truly alarming" by the ...

In the US, rugby is now ready to converge with the American passion for sports to produce a major new sport – that’s what USA head coach Jack Clark told an International Rugby Board conference in ...

The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

The agency defines level 4 as being felt by most people even if they are walking and likely to awake people who are sleeping ... which spawned the giant tsunami that triggered the Fukushima ...