Mount Princeton
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Mount Princeton is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The Template:Convert fourteener is located in San Isabel National Forest, Template:Convert southwest (bearing 225°) of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Princeton University.[1][2][3]
Mountain
While not one of the highest peaks of the Sawatch Range, Mount Princeton is one of the most dramatic, abruptly rising nearly Template:Convert above the Arkansas River valley in only 6 miles.[4]
Climbing
The first recorded ascent was on July 17, 1877, at 12:30 pm by William Libbey of Princeton University.[5] It is likely that various miners had climbed the peak earlier.[6] The name Mount Princeton was in use as early as 1873, and the peak was most likely named by Henry Gannett, a Harvard graduate and chief topographer in a government survey led by George M. Wheeler.[6][7]
The standard route to the top is rated class 2.[8]
Climate
Historical names
- Chalk Peak
- Mount Princeton – 1906 [3]
- Princeton Mountain
See also
References
External links
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- ↑ Merritt, J. I. (1997) "The Once and Future Mountain" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
- ↑ a b "William Libbey and the 1877 Expedition" Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University
- ↑ Borneman, Walter R. and Lampert, Lyndon J. (1994) A Climbing Guide to Colorado's Fourteeners (3rd ed.) Pruett, Boulder, Colorado, Template:ISBN
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