Geography
Mount Ritter is made of a strikingly dark rock, and is quite prominent due to its height (over 13,000 ft) and isolation. It is in the middle of the Ritter Range, which includes Banner Peak and the Minarets. The prominent and memorable shape of the Ritter-Banner pair is visible from high elevations far to both north and south along the Sierras.
The mountain is named for Carl Ritter, who had been a teacher of Josiah Whitney, chief of the California Geological Survey, when he was a student in Berlin during the 1840s.
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