> Here is a morbidly-curious question for any Whitney historians:
has anyone dropped dead on the summit? Surely it must have happened. (falling off does not "count" for this question)


I don't have any knowledge of the summit, but just in the past year, one fellow died of a heart attack on the trail. I think he was ~64, hiking with his son. Another died in October descending from the summit, of AMS.


...as for me.... I'd like to be found in my back yard on a sunny springtime afternoon, too old to hike anymore, but not too old to get around the yard and care for the flowers. On the day before I am no longer able to do that, I'd like to lie down and go to sleep forever. cool