Essex County: Mount Marcy (Tahawus, NY) Those climbers whose noses are as high as the peaks they have ascended look down at the mountains of New York. If you have returned from the &quot;Death Zone&quot; or been over 20,000 feet on a Denali or even traveled up and down some of the Fourteens in the West, the sight of our hills might not make your heart race. I used to be one of those summit snobs. In fact, it was not until I began work on this book that I made the trek up Marcy.