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Wrangell Mountains, Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, Alaska · USA
Mount Blackburn
Mount Blackburn is an ancient, deeply eroded shield volcano that rises to 16,390 feet as the highest point in the Wrangell Mountains and the fifth-highest peak in the United States. Its broad double summit -- a lower East Peak and the true, higher West Peak -- sits deep inside Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, reachable only by ski-plane onto the Nabesna Glacier. The standard North Ridge is a long, glaciated ski-mountaineering line rather than a technical climb, but its remoteness, crevasse hazard, and famously violent weather make it a serious multi-week undertaking. The mountain's twin-summit confusion has its own history: not until revised USGS mapping in the 1960s was the West Peak confirmed as roughly 200 feet higher than the East Peak that pioneering climber Dora Keen had reached in 1912.
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