Mount Mendel

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Mendel

| photo = MtMendel.jpg

| photo_caption = Mount Mendel from Evolution Lake

| photo_size = 200

| elevation_ft = 13,716

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| prominence = {{convert|550|ft|0|abbr=on}}

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| listing = {{unbulleted list

| Sierra Peaks Section{{cite sps |accessdate=2014-01-18}}

| {{thinsp|Western States Climbers Emblem peak}}{{cite wsc |accessdate=2016-03-25}}

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| range = Sierra Nevada, Evolution Region

| location = Kings Canyon National Park, Fresno County, California, U.S.

| map = USA California#USA

| label_position = bottom

| map_caption = none

| map_size = 200

| coordinates = {{coord|37.1749404|N|118.6822163|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=263452 |name=Mount Mendel |accessdate=2012-12-16}}

| first_ascent = July 15, 1930 Jules Eichorn, Glen Dawson and John Olmstead{{cite Secor |edition=3rd |page=307}}

| easiest_route = Exposed scramble, {{YDS|3}}

}}

Mount Mendel is a peak in Fresno County, California. It is in Kings Canyon National Park in the Evolution Region, of the Sierra Nevada and adjacent to Mount Darwin which is on the Sierra crest.

History

Theodore S. Solomons and E. C. Bonner of the United States Geological Survey named a series of mountains for the six major exponents of the theory of evolution. Mount Mendel is named for, Gregor Mendel, an Augustinian friar, who is known as the "father of modern genetics". Other nearby mountains in the group include Mount Darwin, Mount Fiske, Mount Haeckel, Mount Huxley, Mount Spencer, Mount Wallace, and Mount Lamarck. The area around the peaks, known as the Evolution Region, includes Evolution Basin, Evolution Valley, Evolution Meadow and Evolution Creek.{{cite book |last=Browning |first=Peter |title=Place Names of the Sierra Nevada |publisher=Wilderness Press |year=1986 |location=Berkeley |page=[https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsier00brow/page/67 67] |isbn=0-89997-119-9 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofsier00brow/page/67 }}

Climbing

There are several class 3 and class 4 routes available, however, Mount Mendel is best known for having two of the hardest ice climbs in the High Sierra on its North Face.{{cite summitpost |id=151225 |name=Mount Mendel |accessdate=2014-02-23}} Two of the documented ice climbs are "Ice Nine" (IV, class 5+, AI4 or WI5) and "The Mendel Couloir", (III class 5.6, AI2 or WI3). See the article Grade (climbing).

References

File:Mts. Darwin and Mendel.jpg

Category:Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park

Category:Mountains of Fresno County, California

Category:Four-thousanders of the United States

Category:Mountains of Northern California

Category:Sierra Nevada (United States)