This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Few things scare hikers more than lightning above the tree line. Serious injuries are rare, but hikers have been ...

A 16-year-old girl has told of the terrifying moment she was struck by lightning in the city’s north-east, describing the freak ordeal as like being ‘stabbed with 1000 needles’.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — One of the hikers who survived being struck by lightning on Humphreys Peak in northern Arizona recalled getting rescued and his emotional reunion with his wife. There is ...

In 1985, another group of hikers who took shelter in the same cave during a lightning storm were not so lucky. Three were seriously injured, one died from electrocution, and another convulsed so ...