The stone building atop Mt. Whitney, the 14,505-foot peak above Lone Pine, Calif., is on many hikers' bucket lists. (Mary Forgione) You've trained and you scored permits in the annual lottery, but you ...

Sometime around 3 a.m. on July 5 last summer, as I drove along Whitney Portal Road, I thought about a lyric from Phoebe Bridgers’ album "Punisher." “Why would somebody do this on purpose when they ...

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 ...

Tad Weber, front, and John Evans make their way down the ridge. Mount Whitney is at the upper left, the famous stone house a distant bump on top. Special to The Tribune The black bear had just jumped ...

Update 12:46 p.m. Wednesday: Access to the Mt. Whitney trail from Whitney Portal will resume at 6 p.m. today, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The trail has been off limits to incoming hikers ...

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 ...