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Mount Ellsworth and Mount Henry. Henry is above Two Medicine Lake on the right (out of photo).
from summitpost.org: Is it possible that the peak was named for this American explorer?
According to Jack Holterman’s book, Place Names of Glacier National Park, Lincoln Ellsworth was in the park in about 1911 and returned again in 1926.
According to the Glacier National Park Administrative History web site…
“Glacier has had several whose claim to fame has had world-wide recognition. One of the first of these internationally known figures was Lincoln Ellsworth, who later was the guiding financial genius for the Amundsen polar expedition of 1926. Ellsworth first visited the park in 1911; for about a month he traveled over the area accompanied by Ranger James C. Graves. He returned in 1912, and again in the summer of 1926, when Captain Roald Amundsen, the famed North Pole flier, and his crew from the dirigible "Norge," stopped briefly at Glacier Park Station, on their way from Alaska, following their successful flight over the North Pole. The flight from Nome, over the North Pole and down to Alaska was one of the famous polar flights, and the first successful one over the pole. With the captain and his crew was Lincoln Ellsworth.”
Lincoln Ellsworth also made four aerial expeditions of Antarctica where he made a Trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. Accompanying Ellsworth on these flights was pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. His record making flight covered 2,200 miles in about 20 hours. During these flights Ellsworth claimed over 300,000 acres for the United States.
Ellsworth is also tied to the naming of the Sentinel Range and the Heritage Ranges which make up the Ellsworth Mountains. Total land area is 200 miles (360 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Vinson Massif at 16,050 feet (4,892 m) in the Heritage Range is the highest in Antarctica.
from summitpost.org: Is it possible that the peak was named for this American explorer?
According to Jack Holterman’s book, Place Names of Glacier National Park, Lincoln Ellsworth was in the park in about 1911 and returned again in 1926.
According to the Glacier National Park Administrative History web site…
“Glacier has had several whose claim to fame has had world-wide recognition. One of the first of these internationally known figures was Lincoln Ellsworth, who later was the guiding financial genius for the Amundsen polar expedition of 1926. Ellsworth first visited the park in 1911; for about a month he traveled over the area accompanied by Ranger James C. Graves. He returned in 1912, and again in the summer of 1926, when Captain Roald Amundsen, the famed North Pole flier, and his crew from the dirigible "Norge," stopped briefly at Glacier Park Station, on their way from Alaska, following their successful flight over the North Pole. The flight from Nome, over the North Pole and down to Alaska was one of the famous polar flights, and the first successful one over the pole. With the captain and his crew was Lincoln Ellsworth.”
Lincoln Ellsworth also made four aerial expeditions of Antarctica where he made a Trans-Antarctic flight from Dundee Island to the Ross Ice Shelf. Accompanying Ellsworth on these flights was pilot Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. His record making flight covered 2,200 miles in about 20 hours. During these flights Ellsworth claimed over 300,000 acres for the United States.
Ellsworth is also tied to the naming of the Sentinel Range and the Heritage Ranges which make up the Ellsworth Mountains. Total land area is 200 miles (360 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide. Vinson Massif at 16,050 feet (4,892 m) in the Heritage Range is the highest in Antarctica.