The group was hiking on the Mount Whitney Trail when he fell, about 3.25 miles from the trailhead along a series of steep switchbacks between Lone Pine Lake and Outpost Camp.

Polish Mi-17 twin-turbine, medium-lift transport helicopter pilots conduct deck landing qualifications aboard the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) during ...

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USS Mount Whitney enters the port at Naval Station Rota in Spain on May 13, 2025. The ship was returning from visits to the African countries of Cabo Verde and Mauritania.

Iceberg’s architecture is built on three layers—data, metadata, and catalog—making sure efficient storage, traceability, and seamless querying across distributed systems.

Mount Whitney is also the most frequently climbed mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada. Last year, in May, the bodies of a Northern California couple were found after an 11-hour search.

Two engineers at Netflix Inc. created Iceberg to overcome the challenges they encountered using existing data lake formats such as Apache Spark or Apache Hive.

Photo from Caleb Jack via Unsplash With the help of bystanders “who dropped everything,” a man was rescued after he fell while descending Mt. Whitney, a California nonprofit says.

Slowly, they then carried the man “to a landing zone near Iceberg Lake,” rescuers said. The CHP helicopter returned just after midnight, managing “to land despite still gusty winds,” and ...