Mount McAdie is a summit on the crest of the

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, and is located south of Mount Whitney. It has three summits, with the north peak being the highest. The summit ridge marks the boundary between

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and the

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. It is also on the boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties. Lone Pine, to the northeast, is in the

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on U.S. 395. In 1905, the mountain was named in honor of Alexander G. McAdie by James E. Church. McAdie ran the U.S. Weather Bureau in

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at the time, and had visited the summit of Mount Whitney in 1903. The name first appeared on a map in 1956 with the publication of the

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, 15 minute, Mount Whitney Quadrangle

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. The north summit can be reached from Arc Pass, and was first climbed by Norman Clyde in 1922. The west face was first climbed in 1954, and is a ascent. In 1968, capable rock climber 27-year-old Anita Ossofsky and a fellow climber, who were well qualified and properly equipped, ascended class 3 terrain on Mt. McAdie in good weather from Arc Pass, traversed from the east face of Middle Peak to the gulley (which divides Middle and North Peaks), and at the top of the gulley, apparently a hand-hold of Ossofsky's gave way. She fell approximately 10 feet to a ledge, from which she rolled off and fell about an additional 150 feet before coming to rest in the gulley, dying immediately. Mount McAdie from the summit of Whitney

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