Trip Report: Spring Summit of Pfeifferhorn
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Spring Summit of Pfeifferhorn By Julie Kilgore |
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| HIKE | 06/21/2025 | MSD |
| Summiting Pfeifferhorn is a WMC classic. Many do not know that this peak was officially known as Little Matterhorn but was referred to by locals as Pfeifferhorn, in honor of WMC long-ago past president, Chick Pfieffer (he was prez 1938-1939). In June 2013, the Salt Lake Trib reported the following: In 1939, after Charles "Chick" Pfeiffer was found dead in his Salt Lake City shoe shop, his friends climbed the Little Matterhorn to remember the mountaineer who died with his ski clothes on. It was then that the Wasatch Mountains' iconic 11,362-foot summit became known as the Pfeifferhorn. It has been called thus ever since by pretty much everyone, expect the official keeper of geographic names. Little Matterhorn "had become irrelevant, but these things die a slow death," said Alexis Kelner, the Wasatch Mountain Club's historian and a member since 1957. Pfeiffer finally got his due last month when the U.S. Board on Geographic Names officially renamed the peak in honor of one of the Wasatch's legendary figures. |
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