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.
