Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rangers rescued a severely injured 31-year-old man early Saturday morning by lowering him 500 feet by rope from a steep slope on Gabletop Mountain to an area ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Plodding down Mount Shavano last fall, his legs weary from having hiked to the top of the 14,229-foot peak in the Sawatch Mountains, Igor Kulish saw an angel. The Angel of Shavano ...

I’ve recently discovered the joys of glissading.It can be quite a dangerous activity – sliding down a snowfield with no brakes but hands and feet, often toward a rocky moraine – but man, it’s been a ...

If done right, under proper snow conditions, glissading can be a thrilling way to descend in 10 minutes a peak you spent five hours climbing, without the burden of carrying skis. All you need is the ...

So we started hiking down, and once we got a little ways we kept looking over at the snow field to our right and said, "We should be glissading instead of hiking." Just because it's easier and quite ...

A California Highway Patrol helicopter helped rescue a man who tumbled hundreds of feet down Mount Shasta after losing an ice ax while glissading, or sliding down a snowy slope, rangers say. Photo ...

A 19-year-old Mercer Island man is presumed dead after disappearing during a glissading accident on Aasgard Pass Sunday afternoon. Benjamin Gore slipped through a hole in the snow that had been formed ...

Aasgard Pass is at 7,841 feet and is the highest point on the famous route through The Enchantments, a popular backpacking destination that requires winning a lottery to secure an overnight permit ...

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) - Rangers say a man rescued from a mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park suffered life-threatening injuries after falling an unknown distance while sliding ...

In no way does The Gazette recommend you try glissading, sliding down a mountainside of snow on the seat of your pants, with nothing but an ice axe for steering and nothing at all between you and the ...