Mount Whitney is also the most frequently climbed mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada. Last year, in May, the bodies of a Northern California couple were found after an 11-hour search. Contributing ...

Several feet of snow is anticipated to blanket California's mountains this week, prompting the National Weather Service to warn of “the strongest storm of the season” so far in the Sierra Nevada. A ...

One of the world’s most iconic long-distance hiking trails for hiking enthusiasts is the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT). It ...

As such, scaling Mount Whitney is best left to experienced ... and starts at Whitney Portal on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. Despite being the shortest option, this hike still requires ...

Colin Price took over command of the amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney from Capt ... for a variety of publications in Montana, Nevada and Louisiana, and served as editor of newspapers ...

Tribal history extends an estimated 9,000 years in the Lake Tahoe Basin and adjacent east and west slopes and valleys of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. The present day Washoe Tribe has deep roots ...

Peering deep under California's Sierra Nevada, Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah ... Differences in receiver functions along the mountain range revealed a distinct layer in the mantle, which grows ...

The Service is designating only the Sierra Nevada population, which ranges from Yosemite National Park to Kings Canyon National Park, as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act even ...

Sierra Nevada red foxes are also endangered by climate change, which has already caused hotter and drier conditions that are projected to shrink the foxes’ habitat as temperatures warm and push the ...

Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the "lower 48" states, according to National Park Service, and is the eleventh highest peak in the country. It lies on the boundary between the Sierra Nevada ...