"Highpointers" are people with a quirky goal: summiting the highest point in each of the 50 states, from Mr. McKinley in ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A few years ago, my significant other’s father, Mike, invited me on a trip to climb King’s Peak, the highest point in Utah. In his ’60s, he was on a quest to ...

Josh Spooner freely admits to being a Type A personality. Goal-oriented and methodical, this 32-year-old pharmacist from Sturbridge, Mass., was in the process of hiking all 48 of New Hampshire's 4,000 ...

Terri Rowe can’t quite remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 140 summits later, she still can’t get ...

"Highpointing gives you well-defined goals and many people like that." The Truesdales, who started their highpointing quest in 1988, took road trips during the summer months to climb several state ...

BOISE – Terri Rowe can’t remember what was written on the Wolf Fang Peak register that first sparked her interest in highpointing, but nine years and more than 140 summits later, she still can’t get ...

For those who remember long road trips and family vacations, the “sport” of highpointing is a return to those days. Highpointing involves visiting the places of highest elevations of the 50 states.

California's Mt. Whitney is the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. Reaching its windswept summit requires a strenuous hike of more than 20 miles roundtrip, ascending to an elevation of ...