Death Valley ... Mt. Whitney. It wasn’t until I descended a few thousand feet to my tent that things started to go sideways. It began to hail, which turned into pounding, pooling, monsoon-like rain.

Runners in this summer’s Badwater 135 Ultramarathon will take off across Death Valley and over three mountain ranges to finish at the portal to Mt. Whitney west of Lone Pine, Calif. The race ...

We're talking about Death Valley National Park and Mt. Whitney, of course, the sky-high-iest of the Sierra Nevada's sky-reaching mountains. This desert and this mountain are an eons-old pair of ...

The reason why the peaks are snow-covered and why hot, dry Death Valley is east of the Sierra Nevada range is the same: They are both the result of the rain shadow effect. To understand how this ...

As a result, at least one Visalia Unified high school was left without heat as winter's chill hit the Valley. "My daughter tells me that rooms... at Mt Whitney High have been without heat for ...