2 climbers reported missing on California's Mount Whitney are found dead

INDEPENDENCE, Calif. -- Two climbers reported missing this week connected California's towering Mount Whitney person been recovered dead, officials said Thursday.

A person who had been with the climbers called authorities Tuesday nighttime aft they failed to get arsenic planned astatine their campsite, the Inyo County Sheriff's Office said successful a statement.

The person said the brace had planned to skis oregon snowboard from the “notch,” a level country wherever climbers often halt to rest, down to their campy astatine Upper Boy Scout Lake.

A chopper unit and teams connected the slopes launched a search.

“Tragically, some hikers were aboriginal discovered deceased,” the sheriff's connection said. Their identities were not instantly released.

Because the bodies were wrong neighboring Tulare County, the lawsuit is being handled by that county's sheriff-coroner’s office.

Located successful the cardinal Sierra Nevada with a acme reaching 14,500 feet (4,420 meters), Mount Whitney is the highest constituent successful the U.S. extracurricular Alaska.