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NEWS ABOUT: hikers

hikers stories: 10 news summaries

 Iran Accuses 
 American Hikers 
 of Espionage 

Opinion on 3 arrested in July 'in the not distant future:' prosecutor

Nov 9, 09 8:23 AM CST
(AP) - The three American hikers detained by Iran in July have been accused of espionage, a senior Iranian prosecutor says. The three, who the US maintains were on a hiking vacation in Iraq when they accidentally strayed across the poorly-marked border, "have been accused" and the investigation is ongoing, he... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Tehran • espionage • Americans • border crossing • US citizenship • hikers • Shane Bauer • Sarah Shourd


 Iran Allows 
 Swiss Envoys 
 Visit With 
 Detained Hikers 

Policy reversal may be gesture of goodwill ahead of nuclear talks

Sep 29, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has changed its policy on three detained US hikers, allowing Swiss diplomats—who represent American interests in Iran—to visit them. Officials have been denied access to the three Americans since they were detained in July after crossing the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran. Tehran’s reversal may... More »

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Iraq • Iran • United Nations • Tehran • Kurdistan • Switzerland • United States • detainee • UN Security Council • hikers • Shane Bauer • Joshua Fattal • Sarah Shourd

Ahmadinejad: Captured
US Hikers Must Be Punished

Iranian president links release of hikers to fate of detained diplomats

Sep 19, 09 9:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday dashed the hopes of parents of three American hikers who've been detained in Iran for 6 weeks, saying they broke the law when they strayed into Iranian territory from Iraq, and must be punished. The families had urged Ahmadinejad to bring the three with him when he... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • hikers • Shane Bauer • Joshua Fattal • Sarah Shourd

Iran Charges American Hikers With Illegal Entry

Says case is being used by West for propaganda

Aug 4, 09 8:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has charged the three American hikers who stumbled across its border with illegal entry, a security official announced today. “They are definitely Americans. We don’t know whether they are tourists or not. We are questioning them,” he said. Authorities accused the West of using the case... More »

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Iran • journalist • tourists • hikers • Shane Bauer • Joshua Fattal • Sarah Shourd

(Newser) - The three American hikers nabbed by Iranian authorities after allegedly crossing the border from Iraq were actually spies, an Iranian TV report claims. The Tehran-based station quotes an Iraqi policeman as saying the three were “working with the CIA.” Hillary Clinton meanwhile asked the Iranian government today for... More »

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Iraq • Iran • CIA • Kurdistan • tourists • spies • hikers

(Newser) - A British teenager is recovering in the hospital after an afternoon trip that turned into a 12-day ordeal in the Australian wilderness, the BBC reports. Jamie Neale, 19, got lost in the Blue Mountains and survived by eating seeds and grass, and sheltering under logs amid freezing temperatures. His son... More »

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Australia • missing person • New South Wales • hikers • backpacking

 Appalachian Hikers 
 Trudge Through 
 Recession 

Trail provides temporary respite from worldly woes

Jun 28, 09 10:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - They won’t find Mark Sanford, but those hiking the Appalachian Trail are finding an escape, however temporary, from the recession, writes Thomas Pierce for NPR. On the trail, hikers get new identities: nicknames like “Pusher,” an ibuprofen-hawking walker who was an office manager in a previous life.... More »

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recession • hikers • Appalachian Trail

(Newser) - A hero mutt was seriously injured yesterday when he tackled a mountain lion charging his owners in a California park, reports KNBC-TV. "Out of nowhere a mountain lion just charged us. I noticed my dog notice him. He met him right there in the middle and saved my life,... More »

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California • Man's best friend • dog • mountain lion • hikers • NBC Local



 Nude Hikers Shock 
 Sleepy Swiss Town 

Deep in the Alps, a village encounters influx of naked visitors

Mar 17, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Appenzell is a remote, conservative town in the Swiss Alps; it has just 5,600 residents, makes famed cheese, and finally awarded women the right to vote in 1990. Yet in recent years, a growing number of Swiss and foreign visitors have taken to hiking through the mountains wearing nothing... More »

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nudity • Switzerland • hiking • Alps • public nudity • hikers

Oh Poop! Hikers Have to Pack it Out on Whitney

Outhouses dismantled, climbers supplied with sanitary kits

Sep 5, 07 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you you brought it with you—even internally—you've got to pack it back down. That's the new policy on Mt. Whitney where officials have to deal with excrement left by thousands who take to the heights every year.  Air lifting bags of human waste from high-altitude outhouses... More »

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waste • hiking • nature • Mount Whitney • hikers

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