Mount Richthofen is a mountain located on the north end of the Never Summer Mountains

Never Summer Mountains

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. At 12,940 feet it is the highest mountain of the range. Richthofen rises on the North Western corner of Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park

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Richthofen was named for a German scientist, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen

Ferdinand von Richthofen

Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen was a German traveller, geographer, and scientist.-Biography:He was born in Carlsruhe, Prussian Silesia, and was educated in Breslau and Berlin. He traveled or studied in the Alps of Tyrol and the Carpathians in Transylvania...

, apparently by Clarence King's 1870 survey team. Richthofen is known for generating early maps of California and China.

The mountain is a steep Class 3 climb.

Needles and Grenadiers explorerer William S. Cooper climbed Mount Richtofen by himself in 1908 in what is presumed to be the first ascent. No sign of previous climbers were present at that time.