I climbed the summit of Mount Whitney, the tallest peak in the continental United States at 14,505 feet, with friends David and Kathleen. We started at the Whitney Portal trailhead in Lone Pine, CA, ...

UPDATED: August 18, 2023 at 7:00 PM PDT 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.

The year before, 28%. At 14,505 feet (or 14,494, depending on which expert you ask), Mt. Whitney is the highest peak in the Sierra Nevada and the contiguous U.S.

Mt. Whitney in Inyo County is the highest mountain in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet. There are more mountains above 14,000 feet in Colorado, but California has the tallest.

My desire to hike Mt. Whitney on what would have been his 55th birthday, Sept. 28, 2021, lived vaguely in the back of my mind for a while. I had no idea how to accomplish this task.

Last year, he hiked to the top of Mt. Bross, which, at 14,178 feet, is good training for Mt. Whitney, both among the 67 “Fourteeners” in the lower 48 states.

A wildfire has forced the closure of Mount Whitney’s eastern trailhead. Hikers are being evacuated, and some have had to abandon their cars. The Inyo Creek Fire, believed to have been started by ...

A wildfire has forced the closure of Mount Whitney’s eastern trailhead. Hikers are being evacuated, and some have had to abandon their cars. The Inyo Creek Fire, believed to have been started by ...