A falling rock struck and killed a hiker in North Fork of Lone Pine Creek Trail near Mt. Whitney in California, the third hiker fatality in a week.

Harris Levinson was 61 when he was the victim of a "fatal fall" into the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek, according to Inyo ...

A backpacker who went missing on a trek from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley was found dead just two miles from his starting point, Inyo County Search & Rescue reported. Harris Levinson had ...

You can't miss Lone Pine along Hwy. 395. Just look for the one-stoplight Western-style town 10,772 feet directly below the continental U.S.'s tallest mountain, Mt. Whitney, at 14,505 feet tall.

A strong earthquake struck Central California on Wednesday, causing store shelves to fall and setting off a rockslide near Mount Whitney, where campgrounds were evacuated, according to the local ...

Doug Thompson, who runs the Whitney Portal Store at the base of Mt. Whitney (and whose cooks churn out those enormous high-altitude pancakes that hikers devour), recently opened the Whitney Portal ...