During the 1880s, and for some time before, an old hermit by the name of Carleton Banfill made his home in a cavern within the uninhabited and scarcely accessible recesses of Kauai’s Mt. Waialeale. He ...

While most people head to Kauai for sun and sand, hikers who head into the interior of the island will find themselves in one of the wettest places on Earth. Mount Waialeale in the island’s interior ...

At the base of Kauai's Mount Waialeale, one of the wettest places on the planet, Hawaii visitors can enjoy an unconventional island experience: the pitch black of an unlit stone tunnel. That absolute ...

Mount Waialeale is the wettest location in the United States, with 472 inches of rain per year. Such massive rains occur in mountainous locations situated such that prevailing winds force warm, moist ...

A California man died after he fell near a waterfall in Hawaii on Friday. The Kauai Police Department identified the deceased as Mark Debarr of California. He was 66 years old. Debarr was hiking in ...

LIHUE, Hawaii — Rescue workers on the steep slopes of a towering green mountainside struggled amid clouds and slippery ferns Thursday in removing four of five bodies from a helicopter crash site. They ...

My colleague Professor Tom Gill of University of Texas-El Paso made me aware of this statement by the National Weather Service-Honolulu on April 25th, Preliminary data downloaded from a remote rain ...