Mount Seattle
| Mount Seattle | |
|---|---|
.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 | |
| Coordinates | 60°05′19″N 139°11′54″W / 60.08861°N 139.19833°W[2] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Seattle Alaska | |
| Location | Yakutat, Alaska, U.S. |
| Parent range | Saint Elias Mountains |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Saint Elias A-4 Canada NTS 115B3 Mount Seattle |
| 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
[edit]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Mount Seattle, Alaska". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ "Mount Seattle". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
- ^ Newton Horace Winchell, ed. (January 1891), "Explorations in Alaska", The American Geologist, p. 34
- ^ a b Beckey, Fred (2013), Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs, Patagonia, p. 11, ISBN 978-1938340093
- ^ Becky, Fred (1965), "Mt. Seattle – First Ascent", Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. 48–52, Alpine Club of Canada, p. 58
- ^ Fred Beckey (1967), "Mt. Seattle—19 Days at the 60th Parallel", The Mountaineer (annual), Seattle: The Mountaineers, p. 81
Further reading
[edit]- Donald J. Liska (1967), "Mount Seattle—From Sea to Summit", American Alpine Journal, American Alpine Club, pp. 265–268
External links
[edit]
Media related to Mount Seattle at Wikimedia Commons
