Rescue crews urge inexperienced or under-resourced hikers to hire a guide when tackling high-altitude peaks like Mt. Whitney, which is the highest mountain in the contiguous US and requires a 21-mile ...

Earlier this month, a rather interesting search and rescue operation took place in California, and lessons learned from that ...

Rescue divers often rely on rope signals to communicate with their surface guides. An expert diver – and UVA Engineering ...

Garmin has officially set up shop in the UK, launching its first physical retail store in Southampton’s popular Westquay ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

Think hiking season is over as soon as the leaves fall? Think again. For a dedicated group of year-round hikers, fall and early spring — often called the “shoulder seasons” — offer some of the best ...