Mount Ansel Adams

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Description of Yosemite-01 Bunnell 1851

Mount Ansel Adams is a peak in the Sierra Nevada of California with an elevation of 11,766 ft (3,586 m). The summit is in Yosemite National Park near the park's eastern boundary. It lies Template:Convert northeast of Foerster Peak and Template:Convert west-southwest of Electra Peak[1] at the head of the Lyell Fork of the Merced River. It was named in 1985 for Ansel Adams, the preeminent landscape photographer, conservationist,[1] and member of the board of directors of the Sierra Club, a role he maintained for 37 years.[2][3]

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  3. A Description of Yosemite (1851). Printed for the celebration honoring the designation of Yosemite National Park as a World Heritage Site and the naming of Mount Ansel Adams, Saturday, August 24, 1985, Tuolumne Meadows, Soda Springs, Yosemite National Park. Designed and printed by Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley, San Francisco.