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Sourdough Peak is a 6,201-foot (1,890 meter) mountain summit located at the southern edge of the Wrangell Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, 7 mi (11 km) east-southeast of McCarthy, on the north bank of the Nizina River.
Redoubt-CI webcam, Chevron via Alaska Volcano Observatory. View of northeast face from Oil Platform Anna in Gompertz Channel of Cook Inlet at 60°58′36″N 151°18′54″W / 60.97667°N 151.31500°W / 60.97667; -151.31500 ( Oil Platform Anna ) , approximately 100 km (62 mi) NE of
Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. This climate supports hanging glaciers on its slopes as well as the immense Brady Glacier to the east, Finger Glacier to the south, and La Perouse Glacier to the north and west. Precipitation runoff and meltwater from its glaciers drains into the Gulf of Alaska.
West ridge: glacier/snow/ice/rock climb (Alaska Grade 4) Mount Crillon is a high peak of the Fairweather Range , the southernmost part of the Saint Elias Mountains . It lies southeast of Mount Fairweather , in the promontory between the Gulf of Alaska and Glacier Bay .
Mount Steller is a peak at the far eastern end of the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, United States. It is notable for its isolated location among extensive icefields, and for its large rise above local terrain. For example, it rises 8,000 feet (2,400 m) above the Bering Glacier to the south in about 4 horizontal miles (6.4 km).
Ruth Glacier is a glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. [1] Its upper reaches are approximately 3 vertical miles below the summit of Denali . The glacier's "Great Gorge" is one mile wide, and drops almost 2,000 feet (610 m) over 10 miles (16 km), with crevasses along the surface.
The high vertical relief in the Revelations makes the range a very dramatic place and also creates challenging climbing conditions, despite the low absolute elevation of the peaks. The Revelations are drained on the northwest by the Big River, one branch of which flows from the Revelation Glacier, which is the main glacier of the core of the range.
Iliamna Volcano, or Mount Iliamna (Dena'ina: Ch’naqał’in; Sugpiaq: Puyulek), is a glacier-covered stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range in southwest Alaska. Located in the Chigmit Mountain subrange in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve , the 10,016-foot (3,053 m) volcano lies approximately 134 miles (215 km) southwest of ...