Red and White Mountain is a 12,816-foot Sierra Nevada summit in northern California, on the boundary of Sierra and Inyo national forests within the John Muir Wilderness. Named in 1894 by Theodore S. Solomons for its contrasting red slate and white granite, it gained its straightforward identity from its geology. Its recorded climbing history began on July 18, 1902, when James S. Hutchinson, Lincoln Hutchinson, and Charles A. Noble made the first ascent by the West Ridge, and Norman Clyde later first climbed the class 3 Northeast Ridge in 1928. In an alpine climate shaped by Pacific storms, the mountain also supports a permanent north-slope ice field and feeds several drainage basins.