The Long Gables () are prominent twin peaks, with heights of , joined by a

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, with the lower rock exposures being in the form of steep buttresses. The peaks rise from the main ridge of the

Sentinel Range The Sentinel Range is a major mountain range situated northward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the northern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range trends NNW-SSE for about and is wide. Many peaks rise over and Vinson Mass ...

Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...

, Antarctica between Mount Anderson and

Mount Viets Mount Viets () is a sharp pyramidal mountain over 3,600 m, standing north of Mount Giovinetto in the main ridge of the Sentinel Range, Ellsworth Mountains. It surmounts Delyo Glacier to the east and Burdenis Glacier to the northeast. The ...

. They surmount

Burdenis Glacier Burdenis Glacier (, ) is the 6 km long and 1.7 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated north of Delyo Glacier and south of Gerila Glacier. ...

to the southeast,

Gerila Glacier Gerila Glacier (, ) is long and wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated north of Burdenis Glacier and south of Fonfon Glacier. The glacier drains t ...

to the east and

Fonfon Glacier Fonfon Glacier (, ) is the 4 km long and 2.3 km wide glacier on the east side of the main crest of north-central Sentinel Range in Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It is situated north of Gerila Glacier and south of the head of Em ...

to the northeast. The peaks were discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party of 1957–58 under

Charles R. Bentley Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Su ...

, and were named for Jack B. Long. Jack Long was a member of the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party and a participant in many oversnow traverses and other Antarctic research activities in the following decade. The south summit of Long Gables (Peak 4111) was climbed for the first time on January 13, 1996, by the French alpinists Erik Decamp and

Catherine Destivelle Catherine Destivelle (born 24 July 1960) is a French rock climbing, rock climber and Mountaineering, mountaineer who is considered one of the greatest and most important female climbers in the history of rock climbing, history of the sport. She c ...

.Decamp, Erik
"Misadventures Below Zero"
in Christian Beckwith (ed.), ''The American Alpine Journal'', The Mountaineers Books, 1997, pp. 98–107.

Maps

Vinson Massif.
Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1988.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD).
Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.

References

External links

SCAR Composite Antarctic Gazetteer
Mountains of Ellsworth Land Mountain passes of Antarctica Four-thousanders of Antarctica {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub

See also

Maps

References

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