The Minarets (California)
| The minarets | ||
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 The Minarets, in front of it the Minaret Lake |
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| height | 3735 m | |
| location | California , USA | |
| Mountains | Sierra Nevada | |
| Coordinates | 37 ° 39 '43 " N , 119 ° 10' 38" W | |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Knight | |
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| rock | Metamorphic rocks | |
| Age of the rock | Middle Cretaceous Period | |
| First ascent | 1928 by Norman Clyde | |
| Normal way | Rock climbing tour | |
The Minarets (English for minarets ) are a series of rugged mountain peaks in the Ritter Range , part of the Sierra Nevada in California . Together they form a narrow mountain ridge and are a well-known feature of the Ansel Adams Wilderness . The following was reported of the naming of the minarets by the California Geographical Survey in 1868: "To the south of Mount Ritter rise some large granite peaks, very lofty and apparently inaccessible, which we have called The Minarets ."
Seventeen of the minarets were given their own unofficial names, such as Michael Minaret, Adams Minaret, Leonard Minaret and Clyde Minaret. While trying to climb the latter, Walter A. Starr, Jr. died in 1933. The lawyer and mountaineer was the author of Starr's Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region .
Originally the wilderness area surrounding the mountains was called Minarets Wilderness . In 1984 it was renamed after the nature photographer Ansel Adams .
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Browning: Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Wilderness Press, Berkeley 1986, p. 147.