The Minarets are a series of jagged peaks located in the Ritter Range, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the state of California. Collectively, they form an arête, and are a prominent feature in the Ansel Adams Wilderness ? which was known as the Minaret Wilderness until it was renamed in honor of Ansel Adams in 1984.

The peaks were named in 1868 by the California Geographical Survey, which reported: "To the south of Mount Ritter are some grand pinnacles of granite, very lofty and apparently inaccessible, to which we gave the name of 'the Minarets.'"^[1] Seventeen of the Minarets have been given unofficial names, including Michael Minaret, Adams Minaret, Leonard Minaret, and Clyde Minaret.

The area is notable for two fatalities:

• Walter A. Starr, Jr., author of Starr?s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region, fell to his death while solo-climbing Clyde Minaret in 1933.
• Steve Fossett suffered from a fatal plane crash near the Minarets in 2007.^[2]

References

External links

• Clyde Minaret on Summitpost.org
• Michael Minaret on Summitpost.org
• QTVR for Lake Ediza, at the base of the Minarets

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