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.

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.

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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. Related Articles Man dies ...

14-year-old Zane Wach received messages of love and support from the community back home after being critically injured in a fall off Mount Whitney. Robert Kovacik reports for the NBC4 News at 11 ...