Mount Ansel Adams

Mount Ansel Adams
Mount Ansel Adams
Location in California
Elevation 11,760+ feet (3584+ m) [1]
Location
Location Madera County, California, USA
Range Sierra Nevada
Coordinates [2]
Topo map USGS Mount Lyell
Climbing
First ascent July 11, 1934 by Glen Dawson, Jack Riegelhuth and Neil Ruge [3]
Easiest route Case 3 scramble [3]

Mount Ansel Adams is a peak in the Sierra Nevada of California. The mountain is on the boundary between Yosemite National Park and the Ansel Adams Wilderness (in the Sierra National Forest) and is at the head of the Lyell Fork of the Merced River, 0.8 miles (1.3 km) northeast of Foerster Peak and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) west-southwest of Electra Peak.[2] It was named in 1984 for Ansel Adams, the preeminent landscape photographer, conservationist,[2] and member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, a role he maintained for 37 years.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Mount Ansel Adams, California". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=2631. 
  2. ^ a b c "Mount Ansel Adams". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:274668. 
  3. ^ a b Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. Sierra Club Books. pp. 95, 334. ISBN 0-87156-147-6. 
  4. ^ "About Ansel Adams". Sierra Club. http://www.sierraclub.org/history/anseladams/. Retrieved 2009-02-27.