Two climbers died after going missing while hiking on Mount Whitney, California’s highest peak, authorities confirmed to The Sacramento Bee. The hikers were identified by the Tulare County Sheriff’s ...

LATEST Jan. 5, 1:39 p.m. Following a dayslong investigation, Inyo County Search & Rescue found Taylor Rodriguez dead approximately half a mile northwest from Upper Boy Scout Lake on Mount Whitney, ...

Mount Whitney, one of the tallest mountains in the United States, has an elevation of 14,505 feet at the summit ...

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INYO COUNTY, Calif. — Officials in California have confirmed a San Antonio man was found dead along a high-elevation trail at Mt. Whitney. Saturday, the Inyo County Search and Rescue said on Facebook ...

To honor servicemembers’ sacrifices, a group of Stanford students will carry Old Glory on foot and bicycle from Death Valley to the summit of Mount Whitney on Veterans Day.

A hiker was killed near Mt. Whitney on Sunday after being struck by a falling rock, marking the third fatality within a week near California’s highest peak, authorities said. The hiker was in the ...

4:32 p.m. Jan. 6, 2025: An earlier version of this story said Mt. Whitney’s elevation was 14,405 feet. It is 14,505 feet. Rescue crews searched Mt. Whitney on Saturday for a Texas man who went missing ...

Mount Whitney is seen from the Alabama Hills in 2005. On Wednesday, May 8, 2024, the bodies of two hikers who went missing after summiting the state’s tallest peak were recovered following a 24-hour ...

Rescue crews searched Mt. Whitney on Saturday for a Texas man who went missing last week while attempting to summit the notoriously challenging peak in frigid and snowy conditions. Taylor Rodriguez, a ...