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Tuolumne Meadows, August 24, 1985: Virginia Best Adams similes during ceremonies. Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,700 foot peak in a remote section of Yosemite National Park was dedicated Saturday, August 24, 1985, in a ceremony recognizing the famed photographer for his contribution to the American conservation movement. Adams was eulogized as a man who dedicated his life to photography and the preservation of planet Earth. The dedication ceremony was led by Adams’ son, Dr. Michael Adams of Fresno, and attended by Adams’ widow, Virginia Adams, Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel, Sen. Alan Cranston, D-California, National Park Service Director William Penn Mott, actor Robert Redford, and other environmental and conservation leaders. In 1932, Ansel Adams and several Sierra Club companions first climbed the peak, according to Virginia Adams, who added that “Ansel loved its tower shape. He called it ‘The Tower’ on the Lyell Fork of the Merced River. After they came down from climbing it, they sat around the campfire and one of them suggested that they name it Mount Ansel Adams.” Informally, that is what the Sierra Club did, calling the peak Mount Ansel Adams in the Sierra Club Guide until 53 years later the peak was finally officially named. Photo by Al Golub/Golub Photography

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Mt. Ansel Adams Dedication 1985
Tuolumne Meadows, August 24, 1985: Virginia Best Adams similes during ceremonies. Mount Ansel Adams, an 11,700 foot peak in a remote section of Yosemite National Park was dedicated Saturday, August 24, 1985, in a ceremony recognizing the famed photographer for his contribution to the American conservation movement. Adams was eulogized as a man who dedicated his life to photography and the preservation of planet Earth. The dedication ceremony was led by Adams’ son, Dr. Michael Adams of Fresno, and attended by Adams’ widow, Virginia Adams, Secretary of the Interior Donald Hodel, Sen. Alan Cranston, D-California, National Park Service Director William Penn Mott, actor Robert Redford, and other environmental and conservation leaders. In 1932, Ansel Adams and several Sierra Club companions first climbed the peak, according to Virginia Adams, who added that “Ansel loved its tower shape. He called it ‘The Tower’ on the Lyell Fork of the Merced River. After they came down from climbing it, they sat around the campfire and one of them suggested that they name it Mount Ansel Adams.” Informally, that is what the Sierra Club did, calling the peak Mount Ansel Adams in the Sierra Club Guide until 53 years later the peak was finally officially named. Photo by Al Golub/Golub Photography
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