Alaska State Troopers are urging hikers and explorers that venture out into the backcountry to be adequately prepared with survival gear, food and water, and to be aware of the weather conditions before setting out after a search and rescue incident on Monday. Troopers received a call reporting that the caller’s son was lost in […]
A Coast Guard helicopter crew, with two Juneau Mountain Rescue members, plucked a lost hiker from Mount Roberts late Thursday evening after he called in reporting his situation, the trooper dispatch reported. 30 year-old Bandar Alneami was hiking atop Mount Rogers and he was attempting to hike down from the mountain when he got lost […]
Rescue teams were poised to hike through rugged terrain Tuesday toward the wreckage of an Indonesian airliner with 54 people aboard that crashed into a mountain Sunday. A search plane spotted the debris from the crash of Trigana Air Flight 267 in the eastern province of Papua early Monday. The ATR 42-300 twin turboprop disappeared […]