Army Ranger medic at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., receives Soldier’s Medal for saving injured hiker on mountainside in ...

Shasta, have all required climbing permits and Mt. Hood hasn’t. Now ... get more data on when people are impacting the route the most, basically helping them make better decisions about when ...

On Saturday, July 6, around 7:45 a.m., a climber slipped on the Old Chute route on Mt. Hood, a very steep climbing route, high on the mountain’s south side, at around 11,200′ elevation.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Mount Hood Climbing Rangers with the U.S. Forest Service are warning mountain climbers that a seasonal crevasse has opened up near Mount Hood’s south summit.

PMR warned would-be climbers to get proper training, such as from the Mazamas, or to travel with an experienced guide before attempting to climb Mount Hood. "All routes become progressively more ...

led a mission to take 55-year-old Chris Zwierzynski off Mt. Hood. The incident, sheriffs say, happened at 7:45 a.m. on July 6, when Zwierzynski slipped on a climbing route that was described as ...

A man was airlifted from Mt. Hood after falling several hundred feet while climbing on the mountain’s south side on Saturday, according to deputies. The man had been taking the Old Chute route ...