Armenia, which recently has made headlines as an adventure travel destination because of numerous mountains and cheap prices yesterday started it's first international mountain climbing festival called Arev.

COULD you climb the three highest peaks in Mayo Mweelrea, Croagh Patrick and Nephin in one day? Well, if yes is your answer then here's your chance to prove it.

Many people try to start businesses. And there are those who try to climb mountains.

Location In the South of Europe, on the Balkan, in Macedonia, a small country with lots of mountains with great beauthiful landscapes.

After going only 1,100 miles of the approximately 4,400 planned over 18 days, they had to put their trip on hold for a few days due to illness, but Brentwood residents Jay and Sam Wilcox and their cousin Ben Wilcox from the suburbs of Chicago plan to be back on the road Saturday to complete their bicycle ride across America.

When Johnny Strange climbed the 29,035 feet of Mt. Everest, he not only reached the highest point in the world, he scaled the tallest peak on his sixth continent.

A Tacoma mountain climbing teacher is in the hospital after a fall during a climb on Mt.

BREMERTON, Wash. a ' Chris Bruce had no trouble climbing Mount Adams. Getting down was another story.

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Andrew Swanson's casket is removed from First Presbyterian Church in Mankato, where Thursday services were held for the 36-year-old Mankato physician.

A Welcome to Number 26 in our continuing series profiling the men and women who put the extra coat of shellac on the woodworking class project that is Reprise Media .

Donell Humphrey, assistant manager of Boulder's new Movement Climbing and Fitness gym, applies texturing to a climbing wall at the 2845 Valmont Road complex, which is set to open July 25.

A BRITISH woman who extended her mountain climbing holiday by a DAY fell 300ft to her death just hours before she was due to fly home.

Young athletes competed in Southwest Divisional, the state's largest indoor rock climbing contest, Saturday in Harker Heights.

International Mountain Climbing School offers mountaineering courses in rock and ice climbing.

Almost one year ago to the day, weather forecasts were potentially treacherous on Washington's Mount Rainier when a Menlo Park man attempted to reach its highest peak to raise money for diabetes outreach in San Mateo County.

Two experienced climbers fell more than 2,000 feet to their deaths on Alaska's Mount McKinley, raising this year's death toll on the mountain to four, officials said Friday.

HERO Phil Packer is writing an exclusive blog for The Sun so we can track his progress.

MOUNTAINEER Mick Parker will be farewelled at his funeral in Melbourne today. Parker, 36, died in Nepal last Thursday, June 4, two weeks after scaling Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain, without the aid of oxygen.

It's one of mountaineering's greatest mysteries: Did George Mallory and formner Shrewsbury School pupil Andrew Irvine conquer Everest in 1924? Somewhere high on the slopes of Everest lies the undiscovered body of a former Shropshire schoolboy whose remains may yield proof that he was the first person to conquer the world's highest peak.

Hikers will now have better access to two tracts in the White Springs area owned by the Suwannee River Water Management District.

A teenager reported missing on Mount McGinnis has been found dead. Megan Peters, spokeswoman for the Alaska State Troopers, says the body of the 16-year-old boy was discovered late Wednesday, but retrieval efforts were put off until Thursday because of poor weather on the 4,228-foot mountain.

Summer is here and everyone is planning their summer camping trips with some fun hikes in the great outdoors.

My son sent a single postcard home his first time at sleep-away camp. 'Send a juggling ball and fun toys,' was just about all it said.

Are you as upset as I am over Gov. Sanford's alibi for his affair? I really don't care about his sex life; that's between him and his close ones.

An aerial tramway company in eastern Switzerland is advertising its Alpine rides with a new scenic attraction: there's a chance you might see a naked hiker.

After spending all this time in the woods and getting from it only a strange foot fungus and a rash that can best be described as uncomfortable, I sat on a moist thinking rock the other day and thought hard about what I have gained mentally from the trail thus far.

Continuing its state-based naming for its latest generation products, Garmin has introduced a new handheld hiking GPS line today called Dakota.

Madera County sheriff's deputies are searching for a 16-year-old San Diego girl missing since Thursday morning.

A A National spectacles Nearly 400 national parks can be found all across America, and feature breathtaking vistas, rock formations millions of years old, and more.

In this April 3, 2009 file photo, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford fields questions during a news conference in Columbia, S.C. Sanford's wife Jenny said, Monday, June 22, 2009, she did not know the location of the two-term Republican chief executive.

Rangers on Saturday set out looking for a 22-year-old Everett man who didn't return from a hiking trip in the North Cascades National Park, said Kerry Olson with the park.

A lost boy's granola bar wrapper, pieces of his jacket tied to trees and his black backpack helped searchers find him after a night in the forest.

Prepare to cover your eyes today as nudist across the country plan to shed their clothes for a naked hike.

Sunday, the first full day of summer, is the longest day of the year, which inspires the question: "How much fun can you have with 15 hours, 56 minutes of daylight?" To get a rough idea, we grabbed our boots, bikes, fishing poles, snow shoes, etc., and headed out June 8, the 26th longest day of the year with 15 hours, 50 minutes of daylight.

Every year on the first day of summer, a few outdoor enthusiasts nationwide expose virtually all of themselves to insects, scrapes and thorns for the pleasure of bonding with nature au naturel.They call it Naked Hiking Day."There's no way to explain it until you experience it," said Andrew Williams, 28, a machinist from Warren, Pa., who first hiked ...

No roughing it allowed: Lunch is set up on the patio at Paradise Lodge. Food, beds and showers are provided on the hikes.

A severed foot was found inside a hiking boot earlier this month at a construction site in Kitsap County, Washington.

As I sat down to write about another hike at another park, a memory from long ago swept over me.

A British woman fell to her death while hiking in the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy, it has been reported.