Mount Sill

Mount Sill
File:Mount Sill cropped.jpg Climbers on the snow field below Mount Sill, July 2006.
Highest point
Elevation	NAVD 88
Prominence
Parent peak	North Palisade
Listing	California fourteener SPS Mountaineers peak
Coordinates
Geography
Mount Sill California
Location	Fresno and Inyo counties, California, U.S.
Parent range	Sierra Nevada
Topo map	USGS North Palisade
Climbing
First ascent	July 24, 1903 by James S. Hutchinson, Joseph N. LeConte, James Moffitt, Robert Pike
Easiest route	Glacier climb & rock scramble

Mount Sill is one of the fourteeners of the Sierra Nevada in California. It is located in the Palisades, a group of striking rock peaks with a few small glaciers on their flanks. Mount Sill is located 0.6 miles (1 km) east of North Palisade, the high point of the group. The two peaks are connected by a high, rocky ridge, on the north side of which lies the Palisade Glacier. Mount Sill lies on the main Sierra Crest, but is at a point where the crest turns sharply, giving it particularly striking summit views. On one side is Kings Canyon National Park and Fresno County; on the other is the John Muir Wilderness, Inyo National Forest and Inyo County.

Routes on Mount Sill are found on all sides of the peak and range in difficulty from scrambles (class 2-3) to a moderately technical rock climbs (class 5.7).

The mountain is called Nen-i-mish ("the Guardian of the Valley") by the indigenous Northern Paiute people. Its English name was coined, in 1904, by Joseph LeConte, a noted mountaineer, in honor of American poet Edward Rowland Sill.

See also

• List of mountain peaks of California
  • List of California fourteeners
    • The Palisades of the Sierra Nevada