This file photo from 2017 shows the Cog Railway during an autumn run. The railway was used for a winter rescue this weekend. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP An injured hiker who made an “innumerous ...

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Jan 12, 2025 Jan 12, 2025 Updated Apr 21, 2025 The Mount Washington Cog Railway, which began operating the world’s first mountain-climbing railroad on July 3, 1869, is developing the world’s first ...

A mobiie weather station near the Mount Washington Cog Railway, November 2024. Credit: Mt washington Observatory—Courtesy It might have the world’s worst weather but Mount Washington now has some of ...

More than 20 "ill-prepared" hikers were rescued from the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire over the weekend after they got stuck in whiteout conditions, officials said. The hikers had ...

Defying all odds and demonstrating unshakable ingenuity, a daring new enterprise began operations in northern New Hampshire in the summer of 1869. Today, 155 years later, the Mount Washington Cog ...

MEREDITH, N.H. — As temperatures plunged on Mount Washington and ferocious winds made it near impossible to see, hiker Cole Matthes began to drift away from the trail. Then he hit a patch of ...

MEREDITH, N.H. — A New Hampshire man who sparked a treacherous 11-hour rescue on Mount Washington said he is fortunate to be alive and admitted that he was underprepared for conditions. As ...

RAILWAY, ONE OF THE OLDEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, THE COG HAS LIFTED RIDERS TO THRILLING HEIGHTS INTO THE SKY AND ONTO NEW ENGLAND’S HIGHEST PEAK. BUT THE ...

WITH THE DETAILS. YEAH. JAMIE, OFFICIALS ARE SAYING THAT THE HIKER WAS FROM PORTSMOUTH AND THE RESCUE LUCKILY WAS SUCCESSFUL. BUT THE HIKER, OFFICIALS SAY WAS NOT PREPARED. NOW NOBODY A PART OF THE ...