num_pages: 238
description: Clarence King (born 1842) of Rhode Island rode horseback across the continent in 1863. In California, he was hired to work on Whitney's geological survey of the state, beginning the adventures recorded in this book. Includes ascents of Mount Tyndall, Mount Shasta, and Mount Whitney; survey of Yosemite Valley; and field trips in the Merced Valley as well as anecdotes of the mountains' people and natural history.
language: English
title: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
titlecomplete: Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
genres: Adventure, Mountaineering, History, Travel, Westerns, Memoir, Nonfiction, Climbing
ratings_count: 97
publisher: Narrative Pr