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Mount Russell is a 14,094-foot Sierra peak in eastern California, about 0.8 miles north of Mount Whitney on the Sierra Crest. The state’s seventh-highest mountain and one of its twelve fourteeners, it stands along the divide between Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Park near Tulainyo Lake. Though overshadowed by nearby Whitney, it is valued as a quieter destination for experienced climbers, with at least a dozen routes from class 3 scrambling to a Grade IV, 5.10 technical climb. Named for geologist Israel Cook Russell, it was first recorded ascended on June 24, 1926, by Norman Clyde.
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Lone Pine, California · United States