When we were seven, many of us spent our time playing outside, riding bikes, or enjoying movies and TV. Not Frankie McMillan, who recently became the youngest British boy to scale Mount Olympus in Greece. His interest in mountain climbing dates back to age three when he began climbing with his mother, a professional mountain […]
SALT LAKE CITY—A mountain climber and a cliff diver have died in separate incidents at national recreation spots in the West, officials said. Cory Ryan Ehrnschwender, 36, of Cincinnati died while cliff-jumping at Lake Powell, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Saturday. The lake is located in southern Utah and northern Arizona in the Glen Canyon […]
Property taxes levied on single-family homes in the United States increased 3.6 percent to $339.8 billion in 2022, according to a new report from a real estate data firm. That’s up from $328 billion in 2021. The 2022 increase was more than double the 1.6 percent growth in 2021, but smaller than the 5.4 percent […]
The Colorado 8-year-old who set out this week to become the youngest person to climb El Capitan in California’s Yosemite National Park is over halfway to reaching the summit, his father—and climbing companion—said. Sam Adventure Baker and his father, Joe Baker, started their trek on Tuesday and the journey is expected to last four days. […]
A Denver woman fell 900 feet to her death Saturday while climbing one of Colorado’s most treacherous mountains, according to a news release from the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities received a call from a man just before 8 a.m. Saturday who said he and a hiking party saw the woman hiking solo on Capital […]
Have you ever been to a dam before? What did you see there? Well, most of the dams are kind a similar to one another. Water on one side and a giant wall on the other is a common scene of a dam. This dam also seems similar until we get really close to it. […]
