A 19-year-old hiker died on Utah's Mount Timpanogos and several others suffered injuries while sheltering from a storm in a mountaintop structure.

Fat Bear Week, the annual March Madness-style competition that lets viewers vote for the fattest brown bear in Katmai National Park and Preserve, starts early this year. Beginning on September 18, the ...

One hiker’s hack is just another hiker’s smart idea. Backpack for long enough and you’ll find yourself with your own bag of tricks—smart moves that make things easier, lighter, cheaper, or just more ...

I’m out on a quick evening hike tonight, and it’s a little bit of a bittersweet moment because tomorrow I’m writing my final installment of my ultralight column for Backpacker Magazine. I’m Nate ...

A climber takes a whipper on a wall two miles from the parking area, breaking her right tibia. A hiker collapses in 104ºF heat six miles from the trailhead. A backpacker pushing through sunset ...

It’s not always about the weight: On some trips, especially ones with minimal mileage or multiple days at the same basecamp, comfort is king. With 45.2 square feet of floor space, 45.3-inch peak ...

Grand Canyon National Park has closed more than a dozen miles of trails, shuttered lodging, and cut off access to water following a deadly flood that killed at least two people and destroyed key ...

Dale ‘Grey Beard’ Sanders, 91, was about two tenths of a mile from the top of Mount Katahdin when he took a hard fall. Just steps away from becoming the oldest person to thru-hike the Appalachian ...

In what rescuers called a “mentally challenging” operation, a team of three young climbers safely descended Mt. Shasta over the weekend after spending an unplanned night on the peak with no warm sleep ...

The trail passes through the 3,000-foot-high Logar Valley cinematic as a Peter Jackson sequence: Gnarled apple trees and wildflowers line long, narrow fields of bright green grass, and forests of ...

After five years and over 100 stories, I’m moving on from my post as Backpacker’s ultralight columnist. There’s a lot I could say about the people I’ve met, the stories I’ve told, and the trips I’ve ...

A sleeping quilt made of wool and silk, a tarp of silk taffeta coated in linseed oil, and trekking poles made from Calcutta bamboo with aluminum tips: No, this is not a museum collection, it’s a ...