INDEPENDENCY, California — The officials announced on Thursday that they found the bodies of two climbers who were reported missing this week on Mount Whitney in California.
According to a statement from the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office, the authorities were alerted by a friend who had been with the climbers when they didn’t arrive at their campsite on Tuesday night as planned.
According to their friend, the two people planned to ski or snowboard from a flat area called the “notch,” where climbers often take breaks, all the way down to their lodging at Upper Boy Scout Lake.
A helicopter crew and teams on the slopes started a search operation.
The sheriff’s office released a statement saying that both hikers were found dead. The names of those people were not immediately revealed.
The bodies were found in Tulare County, so the investigation is being handled by the sheriff-coroner’s office there.
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in the United States, excluding those in Alaska. The mountain is located in the middle of the Sierra Nevada and its summit is 14,500 feet (4,420 metres) above the ground.
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