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A solo female climber with a bone injury survived 28 hours at 13,800 feet on California's second-highest mountain before ...

A blizzard warning is in effect for much of California's Sierra Nevada mountains, ... The highest mountain peaks have recorded wind gusts of 100 to 167 mph.

News; Nation/World; Blizzard slamming Sierra Nevada mountain peaks ‘with a vengeance’ Feb. 29, 2024 Updated Thu., Feb. 29, 2024 at 6:55 p.m. Vehicles drive as snow falls during another winter ...

A powerful blizzard that a meteorologist termed “as bad as it gets” is howling in the Sierra Nevada mountains. A long stretch of Interstate 80 in Northern California and several ski resorts ...

In the Sierra Nevada mountains, snow could pile high enough to reach the second story of a building -- up to 10 feet, according to meteorologists.

The climbers were closing in on the top of California's second-highest peak when they came upon the grisly discovery of what looked like a bone buried in a boulder field.

Sierra Nevada hold unique creatures, lost city. ... The rain that falls in the high mist-shrouded peaks of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta all eventually finds its way to the Caribbean Sea.

For example, the researchers concluded, about 49 million years ago, mountains in British Columbia had already risen as high as 14,000 feet, while between 31 million and 28 million years ago ...

Many winters, storms blanket the Sierra, a 400-mile-long rocky expanse celebrated by naturalist John Muir as “the Range of Light,” that includes the lower 48 states’ highest peak, Mount ...