LONE PINE (CBS SF) -- More than a dozen aftershocks to continued to ramble through the eastern Sierra near Mount Whitney Thursday, forcing rangers to delay searching for possible victims and assessing ...
You’ve trained and you scored permits in the annual lottery, but you still can’t go to the top of 14,505-foot Mt. Whitney. The southern Sierra peak has been off-limits to hikers this spring, a ...
Whitney Portal and the trail to the top of the tallest peak in the contiguous U.S. remains closed after a magnitude 5.8 earthquake triggered rockslides on the steep, craggy mountainsides. The portal, ...
A rockslide near the main parking lot of the Mt. Whitney trail closed the Whitney Portal Area and forced officials to evacuate campgrounds, according to a Facebook post from the Inyo County Sheriff's ...
The first step on the challenging trail to the 14,505-foot summit of Mt. Whitney begins months ahead of time when thousands enter a lottery for a trail permit. This year’s online lottery, delayed by ...
A wildfire has forced the closure of Mount Whitney’s eastern trailhead. Hikers are being evacuated, and some have had to abandon their cars. The Inyo Creek Fire, believed to have been started by ...
A Mount Whitney hiker who went missing as a late-season storm swept through the Sierra Nevada last week was found alive during the weekend, authorities said.Searchers rescued Edward Lee Alderman ...
The National Park Service on Friday confirmed the death of a hiker who had been missing since Wednesday while climbing Mount Whitney in California. The man, a French national identified as Tom Gerbier ...
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