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Mount George Davis, also called Mount Thoreau, is a 12,713-foot Sierra Nevada summit in California’s John Muir Wilderness and Inyo National Forest, where its runoff flows east into Bishop Creek. Rising steeply above the North Fork of Bishop Creek, it is the 235th-highest peak in California, with Mount Emerson as its nearest higher neighbor. Neil Ruge and John Cahill made the first recorded ascent on July 9, 1933. In 1940, Sierra Club members proposed the name Mount George Davis to honor USGS geographer George Robert Davis for his High Sierra mapping work, while a 2014 proposal for Mount Thoreau also remains unofficial under wilderness naming policy.
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