Mount Emerson (California)

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Mount Emerson
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Mount Emerson Summit Ridge
Highest point
Elevation 13,210 ft (4,026 m) [1]
Prominence 724 ft (221 m) [1]
Listing
  • Sierra Club Sierra Peaks Section [2]
  • Western States Climbers peak [3]
Coordinates 37°14′41″N118°39′35″W / 37.2447003°N 118.6597284°W / 37.2447003; -118.6597284 [4]
Geography
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Mount Emerson
Location in California
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Mount Emerson
Mount Emerson (the United States)
Location
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Topo map USGS Mount Darwin
Climbing
First ascent July 1, 1926 by Norman Clyde [5]
Easiest route Exposed scramble (class 3) [6]

Mount Emerson is located in the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County in eastern California, United States. [1] Mount Emerson is the 116th highest mountain in California and the 671st highest mountain in the United States. [7]

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History

Mount Emerson is named in honor of the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Muir wrote in a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin Mount Emerson. Its head is high above its fellows and wings are white with ice and snow." [8] It has been suggested that Muir might have intended to confer the poet's name on Mount Humphreys which had already been named by the Whitney Survey. [9]

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Mount Emerson viewed from the east
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Mt. Emerson from northeast

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mount Emerson, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club . Retrieved November 24, 2021.
  3. ↑ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Climber.org. Retrieved November 25, 2021.
  4. ↑ "Mount Emerson". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  5. ↑ Roper, Steve (1976). The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 243. ISBN   978-0871561473.
  6. ↑ Secor, R.J. (2009). The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, and Trails (3rd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. ISBN   978-0898869712.
  7. ↑ "Mount Emerson". The Peakery. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  8. ↑ Badè, William Frederic. "The Life and Letters of John Muir". Sierra Club. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  9. ↑ Browning, Peter (1986). Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Wilderness Press. p. 65. ISBN   089997-047-8.
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