Journey

Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada

by Clarence King

Clarence King was a young geologist with the California Geological Survey when he climbed in the high Sierra, and these sketches of it were published in 1872. In 1864 he and Richard Cotter climbed a peak in the southern Sierra and named it Mount Tyndall, after the physicist and climber whose books stand a little lower on this path. King went on to lead the survey of the fortieth parallel and became the first director of the United States Geological Survey.

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About 6 hr 20 min

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The Mountain in the Painting

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #54046. In the public domain in the United States.