Which mountain in the Sierra Nevada over 13,000 feet high was first climbed by Joseph N. Le Conte, Hubert P. Dyer, Fred S. Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman, who called it University Peak?
Mount Gould (California) Pheby, and C. B. Lakeman. They called it University Peak. They scrambled the talus of Gould's south ridge, and climbed the more solid rock of its summit block. This route, by way of the Kearsarge Pass Trail from the Onion Valley trailhead, remains the easiest and most accessible approach. In 1896, LeConte and a party climbed a higher peak, to the south, to which he transferred the name, University Peak. The next day he led a second climb of Mount Gould and named it for his companion, Wilson S. Gould. Mount Gould (California) Mount Gould is a thirteener on the
Mount Le Conte (California) few miles west of the Sierra Crest. Mount Le Conte (California) Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located in the Sierra Nevada of California. The boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties runs along the crest of the Sierra, across Mount Le Conte. The mountain was named in 1895 for Joseph Le Conte (1823–1901), the first professor of geology and natural history at the University of California. Mount Le Conte is about southeast of Mount Whitney, and is flanked to the northwest by Mount Mallory, and to the southeast by Mount Corcoran. The southwest side of Mount Le Conte