1985 [PDF] - Yosemite

POSEMITE NATIONAl. PARK RESEARCH LtBRAR~Mount Ansel Adamsin the Lyell ForkThis photograph was taken in August of 1892 by a young mountaineer named Theodore S. Solomons. That was 93 years before thetriangular-shaped peak in the background officially became known as Mount Ansel Adams. Photography, which was primary to Adam’s(1902-1984) life, was secondary to that of Solomons (1870-1947). In 1892, he was beginning the first of numerous excursions to findmap a trail near the crest of the Sierra. The John Muir Trail, which Adams trod, and photographed so splendidly, was the result. MountAnsel Adams was climbed by the famed photographer in 1924 -- named for him by friends in 1934, and last jear named officially in hismemory by the U.S. Board of Geographic ~lames. As of April 22, 1985, the first anniversary of his death, the over 12,000-foot high peakwill be legally, as well as morally, Mount Ansel Adams. (Photograph courtesy of The Bancroft Library: Information by Shirley Sargent.)