Claire Frist, a very known lady in the mountains of North Carolina. Served me as a guide while I was hiking with her and my friends in the Mount Mitchell. Mount Mitchell is is the highest peak of the Appalachian Mountains and the highest peak in eastern North America, Mount Mitchell is located near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina, in the Black Mountain subrange of the Appalachians, and about 32 kilometres (20 mi) northeast of Asheville. The mountain was named after Elisha Mitchell, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who determined its height in 1835 and fell to his death at nearby Mitchell Falls in 1857, having returned to verify his earlier measurements.