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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 ...
The Saint Elias Mountains formed at the plate boundary between the Yakutat and North American plates. The up-to-12-kilometre (7.5 mi)-thick sediments that have been deposited on top of the Yakutat plate became imbricated and deformed as they were scraped off and compose today the southern (coastal) flanks of the St. Elias Mountains.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea ... Mount Saint Elias [3] [4] [f] Saint Elias Mountains: 18,009 ft 5489 m:
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve is a United States national park and preserve in south central Alaska.The park, the largest in the United States, covers the Wrangell Mountains and a large portion of the Saint Elias Mountains, which include most of the highest peaks in the United States and Canada, yet are within 10 miles (16 km) of tidewater, one of the highest reliefs in the ...
Mount Fairweather [14] [15] [k] (Fairweather Mountain) Alaska British Columbia: Saint Elias Mountains: 15,325 ft 4671 m: 12,995 ft 3961 m: 124.4 mi 200 km 8 Mount Hubbard [16] [17] Alaska Yukon: Saint Elias Mountains: 14,951 ft 4557 m: 8,061 ft 2457 m
Mount Saint Elias, the second highest mountain in Canada and the United States; Saint Elias Mountains, a mountain range in Alaska and the Canadian Yukon; Mount Carmel in Haifa, also known as Mount Saint Elias (Jebel Mar Elyas)
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'Mount Saint Elias/Elijah'), is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve . A number of towns are situated there, most notably Haifa , Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes.