Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A few years ago, my significant other’s father, Mike, invited me on a trip to climb King’s Peak, the highest point in Utah. In his ’60s, he was on a quest to ...

Terri Rowe can’t quite remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 140 summits later, she still can’t get ...

"Highpointing gives you well-defined goals and many people like that." The Truesdales, who started their highpointing quest in 1988, took road trips during the summer months to climb several state ...

Josh Spooner freely admits to being a Type A personality. Goal-oriented and methodical, this 32-year-old pharmacist from Sturbridge, Mass., was in the process of hiking all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000 ...

Atop the crater rim of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, we floated on a sea of clouds that stretched to the horizon in every direction. Somewhere beneath the clouds were the lush rain forests of ...

BOISE – Terri Rowe can’t remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 140 summits later, she still can’t get ...

High on Mount McKinley in the summer of 2003, stuck in a cramped mountaineering tent and waiting out a storm, John Mitchler took out a pencil to write a list. Wind tore into the nylon fabric above his ...

Some people record all the birds they observe, ticking them off from a list of about 10,500 species in the world. Others try to run marathons on all seven continents. As a complement to my hiking ...

Terri Rowe can’t quite remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 140 summits later, she still can’t get ...