Minarets (California)

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The Minarets are a series of jagged peaks located in the Ritter Range, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the state of California. Collectively, they form an arête, and are a prominent feature in the Ansel Adams Wilderness — which was known as the Minaret Wilderness until it was renamed in honor of Ansel Adams in 1984.

The peaks were named in 1868 by the California Geographical Survey, which reported: "To the south of Mount Ritter are some grand pinnacles of granite, very lofty and apparently inaccessible, to which we gave the name of 'the Minarets.'"[2] Seventeen of the Minarets have been given unofficial names, including Michael Minaret, Adams Minaret, Leonard Minaret, and Clyde Minaret.

The area is notable for two fatalities:

  • Walter A. Starr, Jr., author of Starr’s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region, fell to his death while solo-climbing Clyde Minaret in 1933.
  • Steve Fossett suffered from a fatal plane crash near the Minarets in 2007.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "MOUNT RITTER - California Mountain Atlas". Peaklist.org. Retrieved on 2008-09-22.
  2. ^ Browning, Peter (1986) Place Names of the Sierra Nevada. Berkeley: Wildnerness Press. p. 147.
  3. ^ "Plane wreckage Fossett's - bone fragment found". San Francisco Chronicle (October 3, 2008).

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