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Saint Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada · Canada
Mount Lucania
Mount Lucania is the third-highest peak in Canada and, at the time of its 1937 first ascent, was the highest unclimbed mountain in North America -- a distinction earned largely through sheer inaccessibility rather than technical difficulty. It sits deep in the Saint Elias icefields of Kluane National Park, connected by a long ridge to neighboring Mount Steele, and remains one of the most remote major summits on the continent. The standard route follows moderate glacier and snow terrain, but the approach itself is the crux: expeditions still rely on ski-plane access to high, heavily crevassed glaciers, exactly the kind of terrain that famously stranded the first-ascent party's aircraft in 1937. Lucania's combination of extreme remoteness, serious weather, and grizzly-populated approach terrain keeps ascent numbers low even today.
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