Gerbier set off early Tuesday morning from Whitney Portal, the gateway to Mt. Whitney. He was reported missing after failing to appear Wednesday at work to pilot a commercial flight and was ultimately found by deployed ground teams.
Gerbier was scheduled only briefly to be in“ regrets to confirm the accidental death of one of its pilots … while he was on a stopover in Los Angeles ,”Mt. Whitney has fascinated mountain climbers for decades and reportedly stands unparalleled on the continent at about 14,494 feet. In 2011, 7-year-old California native Tyler Armstrong becamethat Mt. Whitney is “the most frequently climbed mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada.