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. Tolki ...

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 on its east both feed the

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of the South Fork of Big Pine Creek. It is named posthumously for mountaineer Norman Clyde, 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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