California teen lost touch with reality, walked off Mount Whitney, dad says 'He was in an altered mental state, and I don't know what caused it' ...

Zane Wach, 14, was taken off of ventilators during his ongoing medically-induced coma nearly a month after the boy wandered over an cliff on Mt. Whitney in a state of altitude-induced delirium.

The hiker fell while hiking on Mount Whitney's notoriously steep switchbacks.

Ryan Wach said his son Zane Wach, 14, experienced altitude sickness while climbing California's Mount Whitney and seemed to be hallucinating before walking off the side of the trail.

A California teen who walked off a cliff while experiencing altitude-related hallucinations on the tallest mountain in the lower 48 states has begun a slow recovery but remains in a ...

Community rallies behind injured teen who fell over 100 feet in Mt. Whitney "My job was to hold him and keep him warm," said Wach.

At the summit of Mount Whitney, 14-year-old Zane Wach and his father Ryan smile for a photo shortly before Zane fell 150 feet on the steep mountain. The popular Santa Clarita teen is recovering in ...

At the summit of Mount Whitney, 14-year-old Zane Wach and his father Ryan smile for a photo shortly before Zane fell 150 feet on the steep mountain.

Community rallies behind injured teen who fell over 100 feet in Mt. Whitney "My job was to hold him and keep him warm," said Wach.

A 14-year-old boy remains in a coma at Sunrise Children's Hospital in Las Vegas, more than a week after falling 120 feet while hiking near Mount Whitney in California.

Rescue personnel and law enforcement units in Inyo County conducted a nighttime rescue on Mount Whitney last week after a hiker fell 300 feet down a steep slope while hiking with a group. The ...