Zane Wach, 14, was taken off of ventilators during his ongoing medically-induced coma nearly a month after the boy wandered over an cliff on Mt. Whitney in a state of altitude-induced delirium.

Mt. Whitney is the highest mountain in the contiguous U.S., reaching an elevation of 14,505 feet. More than 25,000 visitors per year seek to summit Mt. Whitney, according to the National Park Service.

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