Arriving at the western foot of Mt. Whitney, they met Samuel Langley’s scientific party, which was camped near Guitar Lake. Wallace and his companions ascended Mt. Whitney with members of the Langley expedition and spent a night on top of the peak. In their accounts of the trip they preferred the mountain’s Native American name, “Too-man-i-goo-yah,” which they translated as meaning guardian spirit. If we're going to surrender on McKinely, we'll never stop surrendering. Every place in the United States will revert to the Native American name.