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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 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2 kilometers) northwest of Rodgers Peak .
Mount Lyell, the highest mountain of Yosemite Matterhorn Peak, not to be confused with The Matterhorn. Mammoth Peak and Kuna Crest, taken near Gaylor Lakes Mount Maclure, Yosemite's fifth-highest mountain
Park map. Yosemite National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada. ... Mount Lyell is the highest point in the park, standing at 13,120 feet (4,000 m).
Mount Lyell is a mountain on the Alberta–British Columbia border in western Canada. Comprising five distinct summits, Mount Lyell reaches a height of 3,498 m (11,476 ft). [ 1 ] The mountain was named by James Hector in 1858 in recognition of Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell .
Topo map: USGS Mount Lyell: The Cathedral Range is a mountain range immediately to the south of Tuolumne Meadows in Yosemite National Park.
Ernest Peak - a.k.a. Lyell 3, L3 or Mt. Lyell (on maps, etc.) - is the central and highest peak of five distinct subpeaks on Mount Lyell (Canada) and is located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia.
Mount Maclure is the fifth-highest mountain of Yosemite. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Mount Maclure is located at the southeast end of the Cathedral Range , about 0.6 miles (0.97 km) northwest of Lyell. The summit is on the boundary between Madera and Tuolumne counties which is also the boundary between the park and the Ansel Adams Wilderness .
Lyell Glacier is in the Sierra Nevada of California. The glacier was discovered by John Muir in 1871, [2] and was the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park. It lies on the northern slopes of Mount Lyell. [3] The glacier has retreated since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid-19th century.