Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 4,392m, Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest. Situated just 95km southeast of ...

SEATTLE (AP) - Climbers will have to pay more if they want to scale Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier National Park officials announced Tuesday that an annual climbing pass will cost most adults $43, or an ...

Hweqwidi Hanford McCloud remembers the Nisqually River of his childhood as large and cold, bustling with so many salmon it was almost pathetic, he said. Elders warned him it wouldn’t be like that ...

ASHFORD, Wash. — Officials with the National Park Service said the body of a 52-year-old Canadian man was recovered after he fell while climbing Mt. Rainier on Monday. In a news release, park ...

Uli Steidl, 44, snapped this selfie on the summit of Mount Rainier on July 26 as he set a new speed climbing record on the 14,411-foot peak. Uli Steidl Courtesy Most people need at least two days to ...

Four climbers who were stranded on Mount Rainier since Monday have been rescued. They suffered from cold exposure, but have since been treated and released from Seattle's Harborview Medical Center.

Two people died while climbing at Mount Rainier National Park, according to the National Park Service. Search-and-rescue crews recovered the bodies of the two climbers from the Wilson Glacier area of ...

Jiri Richter and Ben Watson were drawn to the mountains — and they always wanted to help others reach the summit. Richter, 51, gave fellow climbers a pat on the shoulder and patiently told them to ...

Washington's epic Mount Rainier has long served as an icon on the horizon for major cities like Seattle. Up close, however, it's also the epicenter of one of America's most magnificent national parks.