Ever since the day when, as a kid, I saw the profile of a Rocky Mountain goat on a Great Northern box car, I’d wanted to hunt that monarch of the rocks. Now the time had come; but, like misty dream ...

This story, “Idaho Goats Come High,” appeared in the July 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. Ever since the day when, as a kid, I saw the profile of a Rocky Mountain goat on a Great Northern box car, I’d ...

I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering my eyeglasses with a coating of water. I cased the glasses and groped on through the storm ...

Defying all logic and physics, mountain goats treat vertical cliffs like flat ground. We followed these woolly daredevils to understand how they conquer terrain that would give a rock climber ...

This story, “Mountain Goat with a Handgun,” appeared in the June 1957 issue of Outdoor Life. I WAS WORKING my way around the last perpendicular cliff below camp when the wind and rain hit me, covering ...