Elevation:
Feet: 5114
Meters:
Rank:
2nd High Peak
2nd Adirondack Peak
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History:
Namesake: Phelps Mountain
Phelps Mountain Timeline
1919: On August 27th, 1919, George Marshall, Bob Marshall, and Herbert Clark, the three men who were the first to climb all 46 High Peaks, made their ascent of Phelps Mountain. It was only their fifth high peak and would wind up being the only High Peak that they would climb for the first time that year.
Marshall, Bob, George Marshall, and Phil Brown. Bob Marshall in the Adirondacks: Writings of a Pioneering Peak-bagger, Pond-hopper and Wilderness Preservationist. Lost Pond Press. 2006.
1924
1955: In 1955, the USGS performed a survey using standard (English) units [i.e. feet], identifying Phelps Mountain as 4161 feet tall making it the thirty-second tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.
1978: In 1978, the USGS performed a survey using metric units [i.e. meters], identifying Phelps Mountain as 4960 feet tall. It corrected the 1955 USGS standard unit survey measurement of Phelps Mountain by one foot when converted and changed the height rank from the thirty-second to the thirty-first tallest mountain in the Adirondacks.
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