Mount Saint Elias
Mount Saint Elias is a 5,489-metre (18,009 ft) high mountain in Canada and the United States.[1] It is also known as Boundary Peak 186.[1] Mount Saint Elias is on the border of Alaska and the Yukon. It is the 2nd highest mountain in Canada and in the United States.[2]
Mount Saint Elias the first part of the North American mainland to be seen by Russian explorers, in 1741.[3]
The first people to reach the top were Luigi Amedeo (Duke of Abruzzi) and his expedition, in 1897.[4][5]
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Mount St Elias from Malaspina Glacier, photograph by Vittorio Sella on the first expedition to climb the mountain, 1897
Tlingit ceremonial tunic given to Maynard Miller and members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club Mt. St. Elias expedition, 1946
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mount Saint Elias, Alaska/Yukon TerritoryPeakbagger.com. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ↑ Saint Elias MountainsSummitPost.org. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ↑ Mount Saint Elias. Geographic Names Information SystemUnited States Geological Survey.
- ↑ Mount Saint Elias. Peakware.com. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- ↑ Mount Saint Elias (Boundary Peak 186)Bivouac.com. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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