Today the threeTetons-Grand, Middle and South- are best seen from the west. On the east side of the range, the view of the South Teton is mostly blocked by other peaks.
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The Tetons received their name from French-Canadian trappers who accompanied the earliest British expeditions into this territory. As they approached the range from the west, they beheld three towering mountains upon which they bestowed the name of Trois Tetons (Three Breasts).
Stones and boulders crashed hundreds of feet down both sides of the ridge to the Teepe and Teton Glaciers below. “I think it's the most dramatic rockfall,” Horton said of his lifetime in the Tetons. But the extent to which the world-famous skyline was forever altered went unseen initially, perhaps because of weather.