An island community in Washington is mourning the loss of a beloved former high school teacher who died one day into a trek ...

A missing hiker from Washington state was found dead after he didn't pick up his food cache, California officials said.

A backpacker who went missing on a trek from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley was found dead just two miles from his starting ...

Inyo County Search & Rescue Recover Body of Missing Hiker on the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek After Fatal Fall ...

Your morning catch-up: 80-year-old completes Death Valley race, immigration action in Ventura sparks protest and more big ...

In 1987, five runners gathered in Death Valley early in the morning with plans to run to Mount Whitney — the highest point in the contiguous U.S. — in Californi ...

Whitney becomes the fifth UW scholarship player to enter the transfer portal this spring, and the 10th member of the roster to leave it.

A pilot from France who disappeared while hiking California's towering Mount Whitney was found dead after falling about 1,000 feet off a cliff, the National Park Service said Friday. The hiker was ...

The Mount Whitney Trail starts in the Inyo National Forest at Whitney Portal, 8,300 feet above sea level. The trail gains over 6,200 feet of elevation before reaching the summit in Sequoia ...