Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The stone hut atop Mt. Whitney was built in 1909. (Mary Forgione / Los Angeles Times) Sometime around 3 a.m. on July 5 last summer ...

Mt. Whitney isn't your typical mountain. You would think that the tallest peak in the lower 48 states would be in Colorado — where 58 mountains rise over 14,000 feet — or at least somewhere in the ...

Four years ago, the Mt. Whitney High School football team posted one of its most uncompetitive seasons in program history — a 0-10 campaign where eight of their losses were played with a 35-point ...

MT. WHITNEY'S SUMMIT — 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. Beneath our ...

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 ...

150 years ago this month, the first successful summit of Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states, was reached. Then the fight for a name began. Mt. Whitney in Inyo County is the highest ...

Snow blankets Mt. Whitney in 2019. A third death this season was reported on the peak, which is the highest in the contiguous United States. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Another hiker has ...