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The Minarets are a series of jagged peaks located in the Ritter Range, a sub-range of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the state of California. They are easily viewed from Minaret Summit, which is accessible by auto. The peaks bear a certain resemblance to the minarets of Islamic mosques. Collectively, they form an arête, and are a prominent feature in the Ansel Adams Wilderness which was known as the Minaret Wilderness until it was renamed in honor of Ansel Adams in 1984.
The peaks were named in 1868 by the California Geographical Survey, which reported: "To the south of Mount Ritter are some grand pinnacles of granite, very lofty and apparently inaccessible, to which we gave the name of 'the Minarets.'"
Seventeen of the Minarets have been given unofficial names, including Michael Minaret, Adams Minaret, Leonard Minaret, and Clyde Minaret. Clyde Minaret, named after Norman Clyde, is the tallest of the spires. The Southeast Face Route of Clyde Minaret is a technical rock climb featured in Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.
The area is notable for two fatalities:
- Walter A. Starr, Jr., author of Starr’s Guide to the John Muir Trail and the High Sierra Region, fell to his death while solo-climbing the northwest face of Michael Minaret in 1933.
- Steve Fossett, an American aviator and adventurer, died in a plane crash near the Minarets in 2007.
A minaret is an architectural feature of Islamic mosques.
Minarets may also refer to:
- Minarets, California, a former town in California
- Minarets (California), mountain peaks in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California
- "Minarets," a song by Dave Matthews Band on their 1993 album Remember Two Things
Usage examples of "minarets".
The minarets caught fire, the sea flushed, Murzuflos rang the trinity of bells.
Suddenly the houses were again shaken, the minarets reeled like cypresses, and the wall against which Captain Polyxigis was leaning split right down the middle.
Megalokastro undulated beneath his feet like some mottled net for snaring partridges on which houses and minarets and gardens and seas were painted.
The muezzins climbed the minarets for the midday prayer and announced the loving-kindness of God.
The clock downstairs struck again and again, and from the minarets there rang out, passionately and harmoniously, the voice of the muezzin.
New York Museum of Natural History, past the cupolas and minarets and gargoyle-haunted towers, across the leafy expanse of Central Park.
And here, encased in a mausoleum bedecked with quartz minarets, was Eduard Pendregast, a well-known Harley Street doctor in eighteenth-century London.
Tejmol were sloped or domed, like minarets, but a few had niches and cornices where two lithe young people could climb and hide, observing the whole city below them.
Leaving the cement towers, the minarets and spires of the city behind, it rattled down the shore road, between landward banks in mourning with cypress groves, and the tumbling western edge, which in places dropped sheer to a glittering afternoon sea.
It was gone in an instant to be replaced by a flashing city of slim towers and improbable minarets, connected by countless bridges and walkways, clouds drifting among them, no sign of ground anywhere.
Domes, minarets, graceful porticoes, these and the great buildings they adorned were of shimmering glass.
Copper-sheathed domes, minarets, poetically winding streets overlooked by ornate balconies riotous with flowering plants.