From the summit of this peak, one can see Mount Shinn and Mount Gardner, both also taller than fifteen thousand feet, while its southern end stretches to Mount Craddock.
From the summit of this peak, one can see Mount Shinn and Mount Gardner, both also taller than fifteen thousand feet, while its southern end stretches to Mount Craddock. The first successful ascent of it was completed by Nicholas Clinch who then moved on to nearby Mount Tyree, and a 2001 expedition that included Into Thin Air author Jon Krakauer successfully climbed it from the eastern face. Most climbs of this peak, which sits in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, are made starting from the Branscomb Glacier. Unknown until sighted by a US Navy flight in 1957, it is now named for a U.S. Congressman from Georgia. FTP, name this tallest mountain on Antarctica, a certain massif.
From the summit of this peak, one can see Mount Shinn and Mount Gardner, both also taller than fifteen thousand feet, while its southern end stretches to Mount Craddock.
{Vinson} Massif