GEORGETOWN, Calif.—Two brothers who were attacked, one fatally, by a mountain lion in Northern California over the weekend tried to scare the cougar away once they realized it was stalking them, and then fought with the animal after it pounced, according to a family statement Monday. Taylen Robert Claude Brooks, 21, was killed Saturday in […]
GEORGETOWN, Calif.—A mountain lion in Northern California killed one man and injured another while the two were out hunting for shed antlers, authorities said Saturday. An 18-year-old male called the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office Saturday afternoon, reporting that he and his 21-year-old brother were attacked by a mountain lion in a remote part of […]
A California woman died after falling off a mountain in the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, the National Park Service said. Before dawn on Friday, hiker Joy Cho of Simi Valley, California, fell off the west side of Teewinot Mountain, part of the Teton Range, the park service said in a news release. The […]
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 […]
A 26-year-old woman from Boulder, Colorado, died after falling approximately 500 feet while free-solo climbing a ridge in the state’s Rocky Mountain National Park on Sunday, the park said. The unidentified woman’s 27-year-old climbing partner called park rangers to report his partner had fallen from Blitzen Ridge on Ypsilon Mountain, the National Park Service said […]
BUENA VISTA, Colo.—In Colorado’s mountains, an 11-year-old girl went to check on the family’s chickens in their wooden hen house Wednesday only to find a mountain lion that swatted at her face, leaving a small puncture wound on her cheek, according to wildlife officials. The girl was treated and released from the hospital, and Colorado […]
CONCORD, N.H.—Two decades after New Hampshire’s famous Old Man of the Mountain crumbled to pieces, the state is paying tribute to the granite profile that symbolizes its independence with new geological research, poetry, a song, and a scavenger hunt. The 40-foot-tall (12-meter-tall) natural rock formation—a series of ledges that resembled an old man’s facial profile—was […]
A man was attacked by a mountain lion while relaxing in a hot tub at a rental property in Colorado, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. “Although this victim had only minor injuries, we take this incident seriously,” area wildlife manager Sean Shepherd said in a news release. The victim said he felt something grab […]
ATHENS—Rescuers have found the bodies of two U.S. citizens in a mountain gorge in western Greece and authorities are seeking to establish how they died, police said on Saturday. The couple, a man aged 83 and a woman of 80, had been missing since Jan. 23 from the Methoni region on the Peloponnese peninsula, where […]
ROME—Italy was on Tuesday mourning the death in a road accident of a rare brown bear that made international headlines when it broke into a bakery and feasted on biscuits. The marsican bear, which had been named Juan Carrito, was killed after it was hit by an Opel Corsa car on a mountain road near […]
An eastbound stretch of Interstate-70 in Colorado has reopened, the state Transportation Department said, after a nine-hour closure left drivers stranded amid strong bouts of heavy mountain snow, widespread rain, and gusty winds that continue to sweep the West and push into the Central U.S. Much of the West is again under winter weather alerts, […]
LOS ANGELES—P-22, the celebrated mountain lion that took up residence in the middle of Los Angeles and became a symbol of urban pressures on wildlife, was euthanized Saturday after dangerous changes in his behavior led to examinations that revealed worsening health and injuries likely caused by a car. Officials with the California Department of Fish […]
LOS ANGELES—The famous Hollywood-roaming mountain lion known as P-22 is drastically underweight and was probably struck and injured by a car, wildlife experts who conducted a health examination on the big cat said Tuesday. The male cougar, whose killing of a leashed dog has raised concerns about its behavior, probably won’t be released back into […]
SANTA CLARITA, Calif.—Wildlife officers on Wednesday were tracking a mountain lion that attacked a 7-year-old boy and prompted the closure of a sprawling Southern California park, authorities said. The child and his father were walking up stairs at Pico Canyon Park near Santa Clarita around dusk on Monday when a cougar emerged from brush and […]
A group of hikers filming a reality show were rescued via helicopter from a trail in Phoenix on Thursday due to heat-related illnesses, officials said. At least eight people needed assistance getting down from the Echo Canyon Trail on Camelback Mountain as temperatures hit triple digits, said Capt. Evan Gammage, a spokesperson for the Phoenix […]
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.—Two mountain lion kittens that survived after a litter of four was found under a picnic table are being cared for at a Southern California veterinary hospital, officials said. The four tiny cats estimated to be about six weeks old were spotted Nov. 29 outside an office building near foothills in the Los […]
