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What's it like to climb Mt. Whitney?

Off-topic from my usual videos, I climbed the summit of Mount Whitney for the first time with a couple of my best friends. Mount Whitney is 14,505 feet tall, and is the tallest peak in the continental ...
Los Angeles Times

Mt. Whitney: A perilous trek to the top of California’s record snowpack

MT. WHITNEY'S SUMMIT — The final stretch of our climb to the top of California’s historic snowpack was so steep only the front points of our crampons were in contact with the mountain. Beneath our ...
Sacramento Bee

Climber trying to scale icy Mount Whitney missing nearly a week, California cops say

Taylor Rodriguez, a San Antonio resident, drove to Mount Whitney in California from Texas for a solo climb, reports say. Photo by Nico via Unsplash A 29-year-old Texas man who tried to climb icy Mount ...