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Many mountains in Yosemite National Park are higher than 12,000 feet (3,700 m); three are higher than 13,000 feet (4,000 m). [1] [2] The peaks of Yosemite are among some of the highest mountains in California.
Its summit marks the eastern boundary of Yosemite National Park and the western boundary of the Ansel Adams Wilderness. At an elevation of 13,061 feet (3,981 m), it is the second highest mountain in Yosemite (after Mount Lyell), and the northernmost summit in the Sierra Nevada which is over 13,000 feet (3,962.4 m) in elevation. Mount Dana is ...
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Johnson Peak is the highest mountain, in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park. [2] Johnson Peak is made of eroded granite. At 85 Ma, the Johnson Granite Porphyry is the youngest granite rock in the Yosemite National Park, though the entire peak formed beneath the Earth's crust. It broached the surface much later, via subduction. [3] Despite ...
Kuna Peak is a summit on the boundary between Mono and Tuolumne counties, in the United States, [3] is the highest point on Kuna Crest. [5] With an elevation of 13,008 feet (3,965 m), Kuna Peak is the 146th-highest summit in the state of California, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and is the third-highest mountain in Yosemite National Park.
At just 10 years old, Selah Schneiter is the youngest person to climb the dangerously steep El Capitan boulder in Yosemite.
Tenaya Peak is a mountain in the Yosemite high country, rising above Tenaya Lake. Tenaya Peak is named after Chief Tenaya, who met the Mariposa Battalion near the shores of the Tenaya lake. In 1851, the Mariposa Battalion under Captain John Boling expelled Chief Tenaya and his people from what was to become Yosemite National Park. [4] [5]
All three of Unicorn Peak, Cockscomb Peak, and Cathedral Peak qualify as nunataks, islands that stood above the ice, when the last ice age created glaciers in the area. [4] During the Tioga glaciation the peak projected above the glaciers , which carved and sharpened the peak's bases while plucking away at its sides.