With hundreds of miles of hiking trails and 800,000 acres of unspoiled wilderness, New Hampshire's White Mountains offer some of the best outdoor recreation in the Northeast. Home to lake towns like ...

Neal J. Riley is a digital producer for CBS Boston. He has been with WBZ-TV since 2014. His work has appeared in The Boston Globe and The San Francisco Chronicle. Neal is a graduate of Boston ...

On July 2, Lukas Lamb-Wotton fell about 60 feet off of Mount Washington while free climbing — without ropes or a harness for protection. He was climbing a particularly difficult route up the ...

ANDOVER, Mass. — A Massachusetts hiker has died after he became severely hypothermic while climbing Mount Washington in New Hampshire, authorities said. A local hiker who was suffering from severe ...

A new study from Vermont State University found that ice climbing brings more than $6 million and 12,000 visitors annually to the Mount Washington Valley. Until now, it wasn’t clear how much that ...

Why it's incredible: The mountain has some of the wildest weather on Earth. Mount Washington is the tallest peak in the Northeast. The mountain is famous for attracting extreme weather, with winds ...

The two friends had hiked New Hampshire’s challenging Mount Washington trail a month ago. They returned and did it again Sunday after trekking through neighboring peaks in the White Mountains. Both ...

WHISTLER, British Columbia — At the top of the mountain, the sun had not yet crested the horizon. The hikers and dreamers had set their alarms early, pilgrims shuffling through the predawn chill in ...

Mountaineers have tried to rationalize their obsession with scaling peaks for centuries. “What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above,” wrote Rene Daumal. Anatoli ...