Mount Friesland

Mount Friesland
Mount Friesland
	Mount Friesland from the west slopes of Lyaskovets Peak, with Presian Ridge in the foreground and ‘The Synagogue’ in the left background
Highest point
Elevation	1,700.2 m (5,578 ft)
Prominence	1,700.2 m (5,578 ft)
Listing	Ultra
Coordinates	62°40′14.9″S 60°11′10.7″W / 62.670806°S 60.186306°W
Geography
	Mount Friesland Antarctica
Location	Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Parent range	Tangra Mountains
Climbing
First ascent	30 December 1991 Francesc Sàbat and Jordi Enrique

Mount Friesland is a mountain rising to 1,700.2 metres (5,578 ft) in the homonymous Friesland Ridge, one of the two summits of Tangra Mountains and Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica along with neighbouring St. Boris Peak. Its north rib is connected to Pliska Ridge by Nesebar Gap on the west, and to Bowles Ridge by Wörner Gap on the north. On the east, Mount Friesland is connected to Presian Ridge and further on to Catalunyan Saddle and Lyaskovets Peak. On the south-southwest, it is connected by a short saddle to ‘The Synagogue’ a sharp-peaked rock-cored ice formation abutting St. Boris Peak. The peak is heavily glaciated and crevassed, surmounting Huntress Glacier to the west, Perunika Glacier to the north-northwest, Huron Glacier to the northeast and Macy Glacier to the southeast. The local weather is notoriously unpleasant and challenging; according to the seasoned Antarctic mountaineer Damien Gildea who climbed in the area, 'just about the worst weather in the world'.^[4]

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^ "Mount Friesland, Antarctica". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
^ D. Gildea. Omega Livingston Island GPS Expedition 2003. Dispatches, 17 December 2003