Earth:Mount Seattle
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Short description: Mountain in Alaska
| Mount Seattle | |
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.jpg) Mount Seattle above Hubbard Glacier | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 10,350 ft (3,150 m) [1] |
| Prominence | 5,494 ft (1,675 m) [1] |
| Listing |
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| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 60°05′19″N 139°11′54″W / 60.08861°N 139.19833°W [2] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Seattle Alaska | |
| Location | Yakutat, Alaska, United States |
| Parent range | Saint Elias Mountains |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Saint Elias A-4 Canada NTS Script error: No such module "Canada NTS". |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | Fred Beckey team, 1966 |
Mount Seattle is a 10,350-foot (3,150 m) peak in the Saint Elias Mountains of Alaska in the United States. It was named for the city of Seattle, home of the "camp hands" of a 19th-century National Geographic Society–United States Geological Survey scientific expedition to the Hubbard Glacier and Mount Saint Elias.[3] It is called the "most prominent Alaskan coastal peak" and blocks sight of larger inland peaks, even Mount Logan nearly twice its height.[4]
It was first ascended in May 1966 by Fred Beckey, Eric Bjornstad and four other climbers.[4][5][6]
See also
- List of mountain peaks of North America
- List of mountain peaks of the United States
- List of Ultras of the United States
- List of mountain peaks of the United States
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mount Seattle, Alaska". http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=555.
- ↑ "Mount Seattle". United States Geological Survey. https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1399386.
- ↑ Newton Horace Winchell, ed. (January 1891), "Explorations in Alaska", The American Geologist: p. 34, https://books.google.com/books?id=tdIPZLuKmnIC&pg=PA34
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Beckey, Fred (2013), Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs, Patagonia, p. 11, ISBN 978-1938340093, https://books.google.com/books?id=6WDoBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT11
- ↑ Becky, Fred (1965), "Mt. Seattle – First Ascent", Canadian Alpine Journal (Alpine Club of Canada) 48–52: p. 58, https://books.google.com/books?id=hPUbAQAAMAAJ
- ↑ Fred Beckey (1967), "Mt. Seattle—19 Days at the 60th Parallel", The Mountaineer (Seattle: The Mountaineers): p. 81, https://www.mountaineers.org/about/history/the-mountaineer-annuals/indexes-annuals-maos/the-mountaineer-1966
Further reading
- Donald J. Liska (1967), "Mount Seattle—From Sea to Summit", American Alpine Journal (American Alpine Club): pp. 265–268, http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12196726500/Mount-SeattleFrom-Sea-to-Summit
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