Two Hikers Found Dead on Mount Whitney

Two Hikers Found Dead on Mount Whitney
The eastern Sierra Nevada, with Mt. Whitney, the largest of three pinnacles at center, near Lone Pine, Calif., on Dec. 21, 2016. Brian Melley/AP Photo
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Two hikers were found dead on Mount Whitney May 7 by a search and rescue team after they attempted to snowboard near the summit, Inyo County authorities announced on social media May 9.

A person hiking with them told police the two were trying to climb down to “the Notch”--a flat cliff on the north side of the mountain’s face near the Mount Whitney Mountaineer Route--and snowboard back to Upper Boy Scout Lake, where they had set up camp.

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