Norman Clyde Peak, standing tall, is in natural company among the high peaks of the Palisades region of the

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. It raises on the main ridge of the Palisades', between

Middle Palisade Middle Palisade is a 14,018-foot (4,273 meters) peak in the central Sierra Nevada mountain range in the U.S. state of California. It is a fourteener, and lies on the Sierra Crest as part of the Palisades group, a group of prominent Sierra Nevad ...

and

Palisade Crest Palisade Crest is a jagged ridge in The Palisades's region of the Sierra Nevada southeast of Mount Sill and northwest of Middle Palisade. Its twelve pinnacles are unofficially named for characters from ''The Lord of the Rings'' by J. R. R. Tolkie ...

Norman Clyde Glacier Norman Clyde Glacier is a small glacier located in the crest of the Sierra Nevada Range in the John Muir Wilderness of Inyo National Forest in Inyo County, California. The glacier is northwest of Norman Clyde Peak () and both are named after Cal ...

on its north face, and

Middle Palisade Glacier Middle Palisade Glacier consists of two glaciers in the Sierra Nevada mountains, in the U.S. state of California. Less than southeast of Norman Clyde Glacier and situated at an altitude of , Middle Palisade Glacier is in the John Muir Wilderness o ...

on its east both feed the

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of the South Fork of

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. It is named posthumously for mountaineer

Norman Clyde Norman Clyde (April 8, 1885 – December 23, 1972) was a mountaineer, mountain guide, freelance writer, nature photographer, and self-trained naturalist. He is well known for achieving over 130 first ascents, many in California's Sierra Nevada an ...

, who first climbed it by way of the Norman Clyde Glacier in 1930. Norman Clyde Peak

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Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness Mountains of Fresno County, California Mountains of Inyo County, California Mountains of Northern California {{InyoCountyCA-geo-stub

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