In the Heart of the California Alps.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

100

Original Date

7-1-1880

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

""How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! ... The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows. The majestic form of Ritter was full in sight, and I pushed rapidly on over rock-bosses and pavements my iron-shod shoes making a clanking sound .... ""Thus Muir begins the account of his exhilarating but hazardous climb of Mt. Ritter, ""king of the alps"" a peak that had never been climbed. Excerpts in no. 134, no. 138, no. 141, nos. 147 to 151; no. 432A; no. 460.

Publication

Scribner's Monthly, v. 20, no. 3

Page/Column

pp. 345-352

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 175, v. 1, pp. 8-18; no. 189, pp. 48-73; no. 341, v. 4, pp. 55-(85]; no. 419, pp. 6-14; no. 421.

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "In the Heart of the California Alps." (1880). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986). 191.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/191