Trailhead location: Whitney Portal can be reached by driving 13 miles west of Lone Pine on Whitney Portal Road. The road is usually open from May to early November. In winter, the last six miles are ...

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 ...

Five words: Jack Ryan Greener muttered them over and over as he hiked the rocky mess of a trail toward the top of Mt. Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous U.S. Rage on. Stay focused. Believe.

A man fell to his death on Mount Whitney over the weekend, Inyo County Search and Rescue reported Monday. According to a ...

Also in June, a 14-year-old Santa Clarita boy suffered severe injuries when he began hallucinating and walked off a ledge ...