GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. — Thanks to a locator beacon and a big warm dog named Velvet, three climbers rescued after a harrowing fall and a night in the wind and cold high on Mount Hood are expected to be ...

A personal locator beacon is a 406 MHz beacon that can be used anywhere in the world, including the most remote locations like on oceans, mountains and in deep wilderness. The satellite system can ...

It was February 2010 and backcountry search and rescue teams and sheriff’s offices across Colorado were getting frustrated. Repeat signals from a personal locator beacon had been received since the ...

GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. (AP) — Thanks to a high-tech electronic gadget and a big warm dog named Velvet, three climbers rescued after a harrowing fall and a night in the wind and cold high on Mount Hood ...

A radio beacon is being credited with helping to save a trio of climbers stranded overnight in a whiteout on Mount Hood, but the devices and the climbers' decision to scale the mountain with a storm ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Mountain Locator Unit, developed for climbers on Mt. Hood, is retired and no longer available to rent. The device came to life after a horrific tragedy on the mountain in 1986, ...

A frustrating two-month mystery that had baffled multiple search and rescue teams and county sheriff’s departments since early this winter was solved recently when officials discovered the source of ...

The two climbers could hear the thudding from a rescue helicopter Thursday morning as it strained to reach their position, a narrow ridge about 11,000 feet up Mount Hayes. But snow was blowing. It was ...

A locator beacon turned what could have been a long, drawn-out, overnight search operation on Ketchikan’s Deer Mountain into a quick and successful afternoon rescue. Three hikers took a wrong turn on ...