USS Mount Whitney, which has been in service since 1971, is on the Navy’s shortlist to be decommissioned. The Navy has ...

Officials found two hikers dead after they went missing while climbing on Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain ... after the two did not return to their camp for several hours, the Inyo County ...

The Whitney massif protrudes ... in the Bay Area or even as far north as Mount Shasta, hundreds of miles away. My plan was to hike halfway up to Trail Camp at 12,000 feet, settle in for the ...

but leave your pack at camp before you summit. The last mile or so to the top is one of the toughest, but it’s also extremely similar to the final summit push for Mt. Whitney. Adventure Pass ...

The hikers had intended to descend to the Notch area on Mount Whitney’s Mountaineer Route with plans to ski or snowboard from there back to their camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake, authorities said.

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the two had been hiking the Mount Whitney Mountaineer Route and had intended to descend to a feature called the “Notch” before skiing and snowboarding down to their camp at Upper Boy Scout Lake.

Inyo County's Search and Rescue team has once again taken to social media to scold a set of hikers who needed assistance after being unable to summit Mount Whitney ... to camp on the trail ...

At more than 14,500 feet in elevation, Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the "lower 48" states, according to National Park Service, and is the eleventh highest peak in the country.