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The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [c] [b] The second table below ranks the 100 most prominent summits of Alaska. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation.
Highest point Maximum elevation Lowest point Minimum elevation Elevation span Arctic: Gunnbjørn Fjeld, Greenland: 3700 m 12,139 ft Arctic Ocean: sea level 3700 m 12,139 ft North Temperate Zone: Mount Everest, [1] China and Nepal: 8848 m 29,029 ft Dead Sea, [2] Israel, Jordan, and Palestine: −428 m −1,404 ft: 9,276 m 30,433 ft North ...
Mount Bona is one of the major mountains of the Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska, and is the fifth-highest independent peak in the United States. [a] It is either the tenth- or eleventh-highest peak in North America. Mount Bona and its adjacent neighbor Mount Churchill are both large ice-covered stratovolcanoes.
The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea level if there is no higher peak. The lowest point on that route is the col. For full definitions and explanations of topographic prominence, key col, and parent, see topographic prominence. In particular, the different definitions ...
Of these 230 major 100-kilometer summits of North America, 103 are located in the United States (excluding four in Hawaiʻi), 50 in Canada, 33 in México, 21 in Greenland, four in Honduras, three in Cuba, two in Guatemala, two in Haiti, two in Panamá, and one each in the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines ...
View of the mountain, centerpiece of Denali National Park and Preserve. The name of the highest mountain in North America became a subject of dispute in 1975, when the Alaska Legislature asked the U.S. federal government to officially change its name from "Mount McKinley" to "Denali".
Denali (/ d ə ˈ n ɑː l i /), [5] [6] [7] federally designated as Mount McKinley [8], is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet (6,190 m) above sea level.
In 2007 Gerald Salmina directed an Austrian documentary film, Mount St. Elias, about a team of skier/mountaineers determined to make "the planet's longest skiing descent" by ascending the mountain and then skiing nearly all 18,000 feet down to the Gulf of Alaska; the movie finished editing and underwent limited release in 2009. The climbers ...