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Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, which spans 430 miles across eastern California. It is the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states with an elevation of 14,494 feet.
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A hiker climbing Yosemite National Park's famous Half Dome died after suffering a 500-foot fall, ... as many as 1,200 might scale Half Dome in one day. Permits have cut that number down to 300 ...
Robbi Mecus, 52, of Keene Valley, New York, died in the plunge from Mount Johnson on the night of Thursday, April 25, the National Park Service said in a news release. Her climbing partner, a 30 ...
The number reflects the large number of climbers that year rather than a spike in the death rate: before 1996, one in four climbers died making the ascent, while in 1996, one in seven died. [10] But it also includes the 1996 Mount Everest disaster on May 11, 1996, during which eight people died due to being caught in a blizzard while making ...
Ammon McNeely (June 3, 1970 – February 18, 2023) was an American rock climber who specialized in big wall climbing and aid climbing, and who set many speed climbing records and made the first "one-day ascent" for many climbing routes on El Capitan in Yosemite. His other interests included BASE jumping and wingsuiting.
One person is dead and another is seriously injured after a two-person climbing team fell 1,000 feet while ascending a mountain in Alaska’s Denali National Park on Thursday.
[2] [7] Sorenson is considered by some to be the best all-around climber of his time. [2] [6] [8] A contemporary of John Long and John Bachar in a group they called the Stonemasters putting up daring new routes in the Idyllwild, California area, Sorenson pushed risk standards in the realm of rock climbing and alpine mountaineering. [3] [8] [9]