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Hiker found 2 weeks after he got lost in a remote Australian mountain range
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A hiker survived on two muesli bars, foraged berries and creek water for two weeks while lost on a remote Australian mountain range, police said on Wednesday. Hadi Nazari, a 23-year-old medical student from Melbourne, went missing on Dec. 26 when he...
Body of British hiker found in Italian alps as search continues for second missing since Jan. 1
ROME (AP) — Rescue crews on Wednesday found the body of a missing British hiker buried in the snow of the Italian alps, but a search for his friend was suspended by poor weather conditions. Experienced hikers Aziz Ziriat, 36, and Sam Harris, 35, had set out on Jan. 1 for a New...
Stargazers' delight: Efforts to cut unwanted light pollution in New Mexico win praise
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Advocates for limits on indiscriminate outdoor lighting that obscures night skies worldwide are recognizing efforts by an oil and natural gas developer to reduce scattered light in New Mexico. DarkSky International, an advocacy group for preserving or...
Scarves over headscarves, Muslim women’s outdoors group tackles snow tubing in Minnesota
MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (AP) — Ice crystals clung to the eyelashes, parka hood, beanie hat and headscarf of Ruqayah Nasser as she took a break after her first-ever snow tubing runs in a Minnesota park on a subzero (-18 Celsius) January morning. She had joined two dozen other members of...
The body of a missing Hungarian hiker is found in Slovenia
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Slovenia's mountain rescuers on Thursday found the body of a Hungarian hiker who got lost in a blizzard in the Alps last week. A Facebook post said that a team located the man in a gorge, who was showing no signs of life, and that the transport of the...
Balkans snowstorm leaves tens of thousands of homes without power and causes traffic chaos
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Tens of thousands of homes in Bosnia were without electricity on Tuesday after heavy snow and winds that also brought traffic chaos in neighboring Croatia and Serbia. In Slovenia, the search for an injured Hungarian hiker missing in the Alps...
Rescuers reach a stranded hiker in Slovenia but another is missing during a Balkans snowstorm
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A snowstorm across the Balkans brought traffic chaos, closed schools and left thousands of homes without electricity in Croatia and Bosnia on Monday, while the weather hampered efforts in Slovenia to reach two hikers stranded in the Alps. The...
A paraplegic man in Brazil is lifted into the clouds on one of Rio de Janeiro's hardest trails
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — It’s perhaps Rio de Janeiro’s hardest trail, featuring one particularly daunting section requiring a perilous scramble that can cause hikers to freeze up with fright. But this week, Ezequiel da Luz, a 40-year-old paraplegic, traversed jungle and...
