Mount Wynne is a 13,179-foot peak in a remote part of eastern Kings Canyon National Park near Pinchot Pass and Mount Pinchot in the Sierra Nevada. Ranked 116th among California’s summits, it is especially notable for its strong local relief, with a south face that rises nearly 2,000 feet in about a mile. Usually approached via the John Muir Trail through the upper Kings River country, the mountain was officially named in 1932 for Sedman Walter Wynne, a Sequoia National Forest supervisor who died in 1922 while on Forest Service duty. A Sierra Club party made the first recorded ascent in 1935.