Mt Whitney Zone Forums Reference Historic Mt Whitney Pictures

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Posted here by Hike of Your Life: 1956 Whitney Portal picture





A followup post shows the current location:

The picture below is actually a separate image of the comet superimposed over Mt Whitney. Discussion here: Hale-Bopp comet over Mt Whitney


Here's that image, from the Corbis Images website. It would be nice if it were larger, but it is a site that sells pictures, so this is what they make available on the web.

The Hale-Bopp Comet was discovered in 1995, and reached its closest point to the sun on April 1, 1997. It comes around about every 4385 years.