The upside down flag traces its origins to the sea, where sailors flew them as a signal of distress to other maritime ...

An upside-down U.S. flag, signaling distress, has been hung on a granite wall at Donner Summit in Tahoe National Forest, visible from Donner Pass Road. Locals speculate rock climbers placed it, but ...

A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American ... a distress flag on El Capitan ...