Mt. Monadnock, NH

Mt. Monadnock is named for a geological feature, a monadnock being a mountain that stands alone. On the one hand, it seems pretty impersonal to be named after a geological term; on the other hand it’s like saying this is the monadnock. I tend toward the latter understanding. Mt. Monadnock is, after all, the second most-climbed mountain in the world, its first-in-the-world [...]