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 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.

A fire is burning near Mt. Whitney, east of the San Joaquin Valley in the Inyo National Forest. Evacuations have been called for areas near Lone Pine.

A fire is burning near Mt. Whitney, east of the San Joaquin Valley in the Inyo National Forest. Evacuations have been called for areas near Lone Pine.

LONE PINE, Calif. (AP) — A magnitude of 5.8 earthquake struck a remote area of central California on Wednesday, apparently triggering a rock slide in the Sierra Nevada.

FILE - Seen is the eastern Sierra Nevada, with Mount Whitney, the largest of three pinnacles at center, near Lone Pine, Calif., Dec. 21, 2016. Two climbers reported missing on California's ...

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 ...

Mt. Whitney is about 200 miles north of Los Angeles and 13 miles west of Lone Pine in California’s Eastern Sierra. From L.A., take Interstate 5 to California Highway 14 and drive north about 120 ...

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.

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 ...