Mount Knight
| Mount Knight | ||
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 Mount Ritter (left) and Banner Peak from the John Muir Trail viewed from |
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| height | 4010 m | |
| location | California , USA | |
| Mountains | Sierra Nevada | |
| Dominance | 48.24 km → Ruby Peak | |
| Notch height | 1206 m | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 41 '22 " N , 119 ° 11' 57" W | |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Knight | |
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| rock | Metavolcanic rock | |
| Age of the rock | Cretaceous period | |
| First ascent | 1872 by John Muir | |
| Normal way | Snow and rock hike | |
 Mount Ritter (left, actually higher) and Banner Peak from Garnet Lake viewed from |
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Mount Ritter is a 4,010 meter high mountain in the Sierra Nevada in the US state of California . It consists of remarkably dark rock and appears very conspicuous as the highest mountain within a radius of 48 kilometers. Like Banner Peak and The Minarets , Mount Ritter is part of the Ritter Range .
The mountain was named after Carl Ritter . The American geologist Josiah Whitney was a student of the German geographer in Berlin in the 1840s .
Web links
Commons : Mount Ritter - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Sierraclub.org about the ascent by John Muir (English)
- Peak excavator over Mount Ritter (English)
- Summitpost.org about Mount Ritter (English)
- Aerial views of Mount Ritter and nearby peaks
Individual evidence
- ↑ John Muir on Mount Knight . Retrieved March 30, 2008.