Katahdin, located in Baxter State Park, is the tallest mountain in Maine - nearly a mile high, 5,270 feet (1,606 meters). But it’s not just the physical challenge that makes Katahdin so ...

The bodies of Tim Keiderling and his daughter Esther were found near the summit of Maine's highest peak in challenging weather conditions ...

The Maine Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has now revealed the cause of death for a New York man who died while hiking Mount Katahdin earlier this month with his daughter, who also died ...

She was 81 years old and climbed to Chimney Pond more times than she could remember, and I didn't even get her name.

Katahdin is the Abenaki word for “greatest mountain,” and Mount Katahdin is the centerpiece of Baxter State Park, just north of the center of Maine.

MILLINOCKET, Maine — Search teams have now found the bodies of both hikers who were missing on Mount Katahdin in Maine. Baxter State Park Rangers announced just before 3 p.m. Wednesday that they ...

Katahdin, the tallest mountain in Maine, is nearly a mile high and is the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail. (AP Photo/Beth J. Harpaz) ORG XMIT: MER2015062419353290.

BAXTER STATE PARK I don’t remember much about my climb up Mount Katahdin 25 years ago. I was young and fit. It was no big deal. But my second climb is etched in my middle-aged mind with twinges ...

Detail of Mount Katahdin on the famous 1835 map called A Plan of the Public Lands in the State of Maine, by Geo. Coffin. A Thoreau map of Katahdin, Gellert said, would make a splash.

BAXTER STATE PARK, Maine (AP) — I don’t remember much about my climb up Mount Katahdin 25 years ago. I was young and fit. It was no big deal. But my second climb is etched in my middle-aged ...