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 ...

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 ...

I left the Whitney Portal Trailhead right at midnight, the sheer granite gorge brightening under another starry night in California's spectacular High Sierra. Elevation at the trailhead is just under ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mount Whitney is one of those places that quietly sits at the top of many adventure wish lists. Standing tall at 14,505 feet (4,421 metres), it is the highest peak in the contiguous United States and ...

A skier is all smiles as she heads down the slopes Dec. 27, 2015, at China Peak. The Huntington Lake resort announced that it is hosting its annual 7 hours on the Razor fundraising event for the ...

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 ...

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 ...