Mount Lyell (California)

Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell from Donahue shoulder
Highest point
Elevation13,120 ft (3,999 m) NAVD 88[1]
Prominence1,927 ft (587 m)[2]
Parent peakMount Ritter[2]
Listing
Coordinates37°44′22″N 119°16′18″W / 37.739424367°N 119.271568894°W / 37.739424367; -119.271568894[1]
Geography
Mount Lyell is located in California
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell is located in the United States
Mount Lyell
Mount Lyell
LocationMadera and Tuolumne counties, California, U.S.
Parent rangeCathedral Range, Sierra Nevada
Topo mapUSGS Mount Lyell
Climbing
First ascentAugust 29, 1871 by John Boies Tileston[6]
Easiest routeExposed scramble, class 3[4]

Mount Lyell is the highest point in Yosemite National Park, at 13,114 feet (3,997 m). It is located at the southeast end of the Cathedral Range, 1+14 miles (2 kilometers) northwest of Rodgers Peak. The peak as well as nearby Lyell Canyon is named after Charles Lyell, a well-known 19th century geologist.[7] The peak had one of the last remaining glaciers in Yosemite, Lyell Glacier. The Lyell Glacier is currently considered to be a permanent ice field, not a living glacier. Mount Lyell divides the Tuolumne River watershed to the north, the Merced to the west, and the Rush Creek drainage in the Mono Lake Basin to the southeast.

  1. ^ a b "Lyell 2". NGS Data Sheet. National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Lyell, California". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2009-06-22.
  3. ^ "U.S. National Park High Points". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  4. ^ a b "Sierra Peaks Section List" (PDF). Angeles Chapter, Sierra Club. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
  5. ^ "Western States Climbers Qualifying Peak List". Climber.org. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  6. ^ Secor, R.J. (2009). The High Sierra Peaks, Passes, and Trails (3rd ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. pp. 415–417. ISBN 978-0898869712.
  7. ^ Farquhar, Francis P. (1926). Place Names of the High Sierra. San Francisco: Sierra Club. Retrieved 2009-06-22.