Mount Guyot (California)
Mount Guyot | ||
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Mount Guyot (around 1900) |
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height | 3749 m | |
location | California , USA | |
Mountains | Sierra Nevada | |
Coordinates | 36 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ N , 118 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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rock | granite | |
First ascent | 1881 by William Wallace |
Mount Guyot is a 3749 m high mountain in the Sierra Nevada . It is a solitary mountain that is northeast of the junction of Kern Canyon and Rock Creek and about 10 km southwest of Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park .
The mountain was named after the geologist and geographer Arnold Henri Guyot on September 3, 1881 at the suggestion of Captain JWA Wright . His first named climber was (in the same year 1881) William Wallace .