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Mount Sill is a prominent Sierra peak in California’s Palisades, linked by a high rocky ridge to North Palisade and overlooking the Palisade Glacier. Set on a sharp bend of the Sierra Crest, it commands broad summit views and forms a divide between Kings Canyon National Park and Fresno County on one side, and the John Muir Wilderness, Inyo National Forest, and Inyo County on the other. Known to the Northern Paiute as Nen-i-mish, “the Guardian of the Valley,” it was named Mount Sill in 1904 by Joseph LeConte for poet Edward Rowland Sill. The mountain is also noted for climbing routes ranging from scrambles to technical rock ascents.
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