Whitney, right, outside of Lone Pine. (Brian van der Brug ... There are much prettier mountains in California. The perennially snow-capped Mt. Shasta is surrounded by lush pine forests and ...

Mount Whitney is located in California’s Eastern Sierra. From Highway 395 at the closest town of Lone Pine, take the Whitney Portal Road about 12 miles west to the trailhead. On clear days ...

150 years ago this month, the first successful summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in ... According to the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce, residents of the Owens Valley wanted to name the ...

A pilot from France who disappeared while hiking California's towering Mount Whitney was ... Gerbier started out at Whitney Portal near the town of Lone Pine early Tuesday and was reported missing ...

A hiker died Sunday after being struck by a falling rock near California’s Mount Whitney ... hit by a falling rock at the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office ...

A hiker in the Mt. Whitney ... were fatal. A California Highway Patrol helicopter assisted, hoisting the body of the hiker from the mountain and taking the hiker to Lone Pine before they were ...

Their body was then airlifted to Lone Pine where it was turned over ... seasons can cause dangerous weather conditions on Mount Whitney — California's highest mountain peak which has an ...

With the help of bystanders “who dropped everything,” a man was rescued after he fell while descending Mt. Whitney ... “to the airport in Lone Pine.” A California Highway Patrol helicopter ...

The final stretch of our climb to the top of California’s historic snowpack was so steep only the front points of our crampons were in contact with the mountain ... Fork of Lone Pine Creek ...