Mount Emerson is located in the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County in eastern California, United States.[1] Mount Emerson is the 116th highest mountain in California and the 671st highest mountain in the United States.[7]
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Mount Emerson | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 13,210 ft (4,026 m)[1] |
Prominence | 724 ft (221 m)[1] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 37°14′41″N 118°39′35″W[4] |
Geography | |
Location |
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Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
Topo map | USGS Mount Darwin |
Climbing | |
First ascent | July 1, 1926 by Norman Clyde[5] |
Easiest route | Exposed scramble (class 3)[6] |
Mount Emerson is named in honor of the essayist, poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson. John Muir wrote in a letter to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr that "I have named a grand wide-winged mountain on the head of the Joaquin Mount Emerson. Its head is high above its fellows and wings are white with ice and snow."[8] It has been suggested that Muir might have intended to confer the poet's name on Mount Humphreys which had already been named by the Whitney Survey.[9]