Mount Salisbury

NPS Photo

Elevation: 12,170 ft.
South Peak: 11,970 ft.

Named by W. O. Field, Jr., and W. S. Cooper in 1936 for Rollin D. Salisbury, 1858-1922, professor of geology at the Univ. of Chicago from 1892 until his death, and an eminent student of Pleistocene and Recent glaciers. Climbers have reached the summit of both peaks.

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Successful Summits (both peaks)

Date	Route	Climbers
6/17/1977	Northwest Face	James Nelson, Steven Swenson, Jerome Eberharter, and Greg Thompson
6/20/1979	Northwest Ridge and North Face (to South Peak)	Peter Speer, Daniel Cauthorn, Ernest Jones, Benjamin Dobbin, and Michael Friedman