Submitted by Cubic202 (Los Angeles, USA)

Here are some pics of me climbing Mt Whitney, 14,000+ ft. It took seven hours to get up there and camped at 12,000 ft. Got up at 5am and summited and came back that same day. The main worry was altitude-sickness, bears and summit lightening. Thankfully the weather was great at the top. This was done last August and there was still snow and a large Glacier. Mt Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California about a four-hour drive north of Los Angles. Its total height is 14,505 ft. The climb starts at roughly 8,000 ft and then its vertical climb up. The trail is clearly marked out, so although it’s the highest mountain in the continental US it’s far from technical. It took us six months of training to get there but it was worth it.