North Palisade is the third-highest mountain in the Sierra Nevada range of California, and one of the state's small number of peaks over 14,000 feet, known as fourteeners.

[8] They approached the area overland from south of the Palisades, and scouted possible routes from the summits of Marion Peak and Mount Sill.

Around 13,100 feet (4,000 m), they followed a northward branch of this chute, and slowly climbed a difficult system of cracks.

[7][9] After making this climb, LeConte is quoted as writing in a letter, "I have called the peak merely the North Palisade.

"[11] The peak has been called North Palisade since that day, and received official recognition by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.