Part of the Historic Adirondack Reprint Series How did the peaks of the Adirondacks get their names? Who first conquered their heights? What are the fascinating stories and legends connected with them, and how did these arise? • All original artwork is included. • Full Text and fully indexed. • Edited, proof-read, and formatted specifically for multiple devices and print options. • New Introduction for the 2025 reprint Edition Russell Carson (1884-1961) was an active member of the Adirondack Mountain Club. He lived in Glens Falls, and did as much as any person to promote hiking and historical awareness in the Adirondacks. He describes in his foreword and elsewhere the process of creating this book, which itself has become a classic of the region. The book played a large role in the popularization of the 46-er culture. Notes on Formatting and Editing: This edition does not rely on basic pasting of a pdf or simple OCR (Optical Character Recognition) scanning, practices which can result in an unpleasant reading experience. It has been closely read and edited by humans to eliminate any reproduction quality or transcription issues. Kindle and print versions have been individually formatted to account for layout differences. A few details may be missed, but as found they will be corrected in future releases. The order of contents has been altered slightly. A new table of contents has been added to the beginning, just after the title page and copyright information. Previous contents and illustration lists which refer to outdated page numbers have been eliminated. These have all been re-ordered and placed together in the new, initial table of contents. The previous table of contents has been changed from an alphabetical list to a list which follows the actual sequence of the text. To improve the flow of text the locations of some illustrations have been altered slightly to better fit with page and paragraph breaks. They are otherwise fundamentally in the same locations. Some may have been rotated 90 degrees for more optimal viewing. In the print editions, the illustrated endpapers of a map have been moved to other adjacent endpages. Kindle footnotes have been hyperlinked and/or placed at the end of chapters, and do not appear in the text or on specific pages. Some tables and charts have been converted to images, as this is easier to present across various devices. Except for obvious typesetting errors spelling remains as presented in the original text, including inconsistencies such as varied hyphen usage or antiquated vs. modern forms.