
On the cold, gray morning of March 14th, 2018, the wind outside the Desert View Lodge carried a biting chill…

In early October of 2011, the wind sweeping across Pine Hollow Ridge, Colorado, had already begun to turn sharp. At…

In August of 2018, 24year-old Ariana Flores left her apartment in Reno, Nevada for what she told her roommate would…

On the cold afternoon of November 26th, 2005, three volunteers from the backcountry search group Northridge Trackers were sweeping the…

In early March of 2021, after nearly six straight weeks of deep freeze, the Oregon Cascades were finally warming. The…

In late August of 2013, two brothers, Evan and Daniel Mercer, left their home in Boise, Idaho, for a short…

In early February 2010, when winter still held South Central Alaska like a clenched fist, 29-year-old wildlife biologist Leah Morgan…

On September 10th, 2018, Michael Collins, aged 36, and his wife Sarah Collins, 34, arrived in Port Angeles, Washington. Carrying…

On May 18th, 2015, 25-year-old wildlife photography student Elena Maro left her apartment in Carson City, Nevada for what was…

On September 3rd, 2022, the town of Silver Ridge, Colorado, was still half asleep when 26-year-old Hannah Cole stepped out…

The last message was supposed to be simple. A 2-cond update. A selfie with dirty faces. Something dumb like camp…

The first thing the deputy noticed was the heat. Even before the sun fully cleared the meases, the air in…

The morning of September 9th, 2006 broke clear and cold over the high desert mountains of southern Utah. The sky…

The morning of April 17th, 2015, arrived quietly in the western stretches of Rockingham County, Virginia. A thin layer of…

On July 6th, 2019, the mountains west of Gunnison, Colorado, woke beneath a clear, deceptively gentle sky. Overnight rain had…

Ella Hart was not the kind of person people worried about. At 29, she lived alone in a modest…

On August 4th, 2018, the town of Pine Hollow, Kentucky, woke beneath a low ceiling of cloud that pressed gently…

In early 2021, Jessica Collins, a 26-year-old model based in Tempe, Arizona, was living a life that appeared calm, structured,…

On October 6th, 2013, the western slopes of the San Juan Mountains in Colorado were already surrendering to early winter….

They planned to be back before dark. That was the last thing the mother told her sister before losing signal…