Coordinates: 78°15′13″S 86°06′50″W / 78.25361°S 86.11389°W / -78.25361; -86.11389

Mount Viets

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Location of Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica
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Sentinel Range map

Mount Viets (Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).) is a sharp pyramidal mountain over 3,600 m, standing 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) 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 mountain was discovered by the Marie Byrd Land Traverse party of 1957–58 under Charles R. Bentley. It was named for Ronald L. Viets, a geophysicist at Little America V Station in 1957. It was climbed for the first time on January 11, 1996, by the French alpinists Erik Decamp and Catherine Destivelle.[1]

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  1. ^ Decamp, Erik, "Misadventures Below Zero", in Christian Beckwith (ed.), The American Alpine Journal, The Mountaineers Books, 1997, pp. 98–107. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).

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