A well-known and beloved Washington state teacher plummeted to his death just two miles into a planned solo backpack trek ...

An island community in Washington is mourning the loss of a beloved former high school teacher who died one day into a trek ...

Harris Levinson, 61, vanished while undertaking a 140-mile hike earlier this month and after friends sounded the alarm, ...

Harris Levinson was a teacher at Vashon High School, where he taught Spanish and other subjects. He left the school in 2017 ...

A backpacker who went missing on a trek from Mount Whitney to Yosemite Valley was found dead just two miles from his starting ...

A missing hiker from Washington state was found dead after he didn’t pick up his food cache, California officials said.

Inyo County Search & Rescue Recover Body of Missing Hiker on the North Fork of Lone Pine Creek After Fatal Fall ...

First came the coronavirus closure. Then came an earthquake-triggered rockslide that shut down Whitney Portal. As the days ticked closer to July 5, our permit date to hike Mt. Whitney, I was sure ...

The Whitney Portal is the gateway to Mt. Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous U.S. and the trailhead for the Mt. Whitney Trail, according to KPIX-TV. Chrissinger told Storyful he was ...

Wednesday’s earthquake of 5.8 magnitude triggered several rockslides in the Whitney Portal area, causing closure of the road to the Mount Whitney trailhead and the campground there.