REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Man Card for Life: Hiker Walks 10 Miles After Being Impaled by Hiking Stick
| Keywords | hikingsurvivalhikerinjurywildernessoutdoor-adventureresiliencehuman-spiritwalkingnatureextreme-survivaltrailaccidentself-rescuemanhood |
NYTIMES (Remy Tumin) - Hiker Trekked 10 Miles to Safety After Impaling Himself on Pole
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 |
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Crowd chaos at Yosemite National Park
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.
WAR (Air Force Maj. David Bedard) - Alaska National Guard Rescues 4 People in 2 Days
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-guardalaskarescueusafair-forcesearch-and-rescuewildernesssoldiersairmenmilitary-rescueemergency-servicesalaska-wildernessus-military |
WAR (Air Force Maj. David Bedard) - Alaska National Guard Rescues 4 People Before Holiday Weekend
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 |
NPR (Natalie Escobar) - When going to 'camp' meant Roman military lodgings — not summer fun
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 |
REDSTATE (Ward Clark) - Alaska Man Monday: Gold, Fires, and the Value of Touching Grass
AMERICANTHINKER - The Liberal Call of the Wild
PickPik Civilization is superior to wilderness.
| Keywords | civilizationwildernessnatureleftismpoliticsus-politicsradical-leftred-green-axisculture-waramerican-cultureextremismmedia-critiquedemocratsusaliberalismphilosophysocial-commentary |
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Hiker survives grizzly bear attack: 'I thought...this is it'
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 |
HUFFPOST - Conditions Of 4 Climbers Who Fell On Mount McKinley Unknown As Rescuers Try To Reach Them
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 |