Earlier this week, a hiker in California’s Angeles National Forest died after loosing her footing during a river crossing.

Authorities found a missing man in Florida, and he was alive but not exactly well after becoming stuck in quicksand without food or water.

Two people became stuck 900 feet in the air after their hot air balloon crashed into a cell tower. Watch the rescue here.

Two cars stopped at a red light in Nebraska ended up stuck when a sinkhole suddenly opened up beneath them. Watch here.

A man who decided it’d be a good idea to catch a Cooper’s hawk and pour alcohol down the hawk’s throat got hit with animal-cruelty charges.

A tragic outcome for the group of backcountry skiers after an avalanche in the Castle Peak area of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.

Officials granted permanent protections to six populations of mountain lions in California under the state’s Endangered Species Act.

Skydiver Pierre Wolnik has died after his chute failed to open during a daring freefall jump from a helicopter in the French Alps.

A man posted a video of himself BASE jumping in Yosemite National Park during the government shutdown, but now he’s saying it was fake.

A 12-year-old girl fell from a ski lift at the Mammoth Mountain ski area in California, and survived. Another skier caught it all on video.