Mount Moran, Mountain summit in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, US.
Mount Moran rises 6,000 feet above Jackson Lake, displaying ancient igneous and metamorphic rocks with a vertical black diabase formation across its east face.
The first successful climb to Mount Moran's peak occurred on July 22, 1922, when LeGrand Hardy, Bennet McNulty, and Ben Rich reached the summit via Skillet Glacier.
The mountain bears the name of Thomas Moran, an American frontier landscape artist who created watercolors of the Yellowstone region during the 1872 Hayden expedition.
Access to Mount Moran requires crossing Leigh Lake by canoe, as no maintained trails lead to the base of the mountain from the main park roads.
The mountain contains a prominent black dike formation, created when molten magma filled rock cracks nearly one billion years ago and remains visible after surrounding erosion.
Location: Wyoming
Elevation above the sea: 3,842 m
GPS coordinates: 43.83521,-110.77632
Latest update: March 8, 2025 04:00
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