Californian authorities have recovered and identified the bodies of two hikers who went missing while trekking up the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States. Tulare County Sheriff's Office officials told local media on Thursday that the couple, identified as 28-year-old Andrew Niziol and 29-year-old Patty Bolan, were found after helicopter and foot search teams scoured the 14,500ft-tall Mount Whitney, in central on Thursday.On Tuesday, Niziol, who was from South Lake Tahoe, and Bolan, who had just finished adoctoral studies in physics at UC Davis, failed to report back to their camp at the Upper Boy Scout Lake, which lies east of the peak.
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