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Saint Elias Mountains, Alaska/Yukon border (Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, Alaska / Kluane National Park, Yukon) · USA
Mount Saint Elias
Mount Saint Elias rises almost directly from the Gulf of Alaska to 18,008 feet in barely eighteen miles, producing one of the greatest base-to-summit reliefs of any mountain on Earth and a genuine 'sea-to-summit' objective. The mountain sits astride the Alaska-Yukon boundary within twin national parks (Wrangell–St. Elias and Kluane) and is wrapped in some of the stormiest, wettest weather in North America, funneled straight off the Gulf. Its first ascent in 1897 by the Duke of the Abruzzi's Italian expedition, documented by mountaineering photographer Vittorio Sella, remains a landmark in early Alaskan exploration. Modern parties typically fly or boat into Icy Bay and climb the Southwest Face toward Haydon Col, facing sustained mixed ground, serious icefall hazard, and weeks of potential storm-bound waiting.
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