Officials abruptly lost contact with the hikers after their cell phone batteries died, officials said. Rescuers went to Mount Moosilauke and began a rescue mission to locate the pair.

Cell phones and personal emergency locator devices also add a, albeit sometimes false, sense of security. If we need help, we ...

IN THE AFTERNOON glow before sundown, Mount Washington and Mount Madison towered in the distance like sunlit temples of snow. Nineteen people, mostly couples, came to the Bretton Woods Nordic Center ...