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David Cifaldi was hiking up Granite Peak, Montana’s tallest mountain, last week when he slipped and fell on one of his trekking poles. A wound nurse, he went into survival mode.
| Keywords | montanagranite-peakhikinghikersurvivalaccidentinjurywildernessoutdoorstrekkingmountainsmountain-climbingadventureemergency-responsesearch-and-rescuetravelnatureexploration |
Overcrowding at one of the nation's national parks is raising safety concerns as hikers are seen squeezing past each other down a steep and packed cliffside at a popular trail.
Soldiers and airmen assigned to the Alaska National Guard executed four missions to save four people in the Alaska wilderness before the July Fourth holiday weekend.
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Soldiers and airmen assigned to the Alaska National Guard executed four missions to save four people in the Alaska wilderness before the July Fourth holiday weekend.
| Keywords | alaska-national-guardalaskasearch-and-rescuerescue-missionairmansoldierwildernessjuly-fourthholiday-weekendmilitary-operationsalaska-wildernessnational-guard |
In this installment of NPR's Word of the Week, we go to camp: from 16th-century military lodgings to the wilderness adventures of the 1880s designed to turn boys into "manly men."
| Keywords | historyroman-empiremilitaryetymologyword-of-the-weeknpreducationcultureancient-romelodgings16th-centurywildernessadventuremasculinityboyhoodlinguisticssocial-historyusacampingmanliness |
PickPik Civilization is superior to wilderness.
| Keywords | civilizationwildernessnatureleftismpoliticsus-politicsradical-leftred-green-axisculture-waramerican-cultureextremismmedia-critiquedemocratsusaliberalismphilosophysocial-commentary |
Daniel Crago was hiking in Glacier National Park when he says a grizzly bear latched onto his arm and dragged him more than 20 feet.
| Keywords | grizzly-bearbear-attackglacier-national-parkhikersurvivalwildlifeanimal-attacknational-parksmontanadaniel-cragoabc-newsnaturesafetyextreme-survivalwildernessinjurywildlife-observation |
Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said.
| Keywords | mount-mckinleyalaskausnational-park-servicenpsclimbersrescuemountain-climbingwildernessemergency-responseadventurenatureoutdoor-recreationmountainsnorth-america |
The condition of the climbers was not immediately known.
| Keywords | alaskamount-mckinleyrescueclimbersemergencymountain-climbingoutdoor-adventuresearch-and-rescuewildernessnaturetravelextreme-sports |