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Mount Fairweather [a] (or Tsalxaan in the Tlingit language [4]) is a mountain located 20 km (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border. With an elevation of 4,653 metres (15,266 ft), it is the tallest mountain in British Columbia and the seventh-tallest mountain in Alaska .
Fifty Years of Alaskan Statehood is located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains. [1] It is set within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and is situated six miles (9.7 km) northwest of Mount Bertha.
Allen Carpé (December 20, 1894 – May 9, 1932) was an American engineer and mountaineer who is the namesake of Mount Carpe in Alaska. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather .
This list of museums in Alaska is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
One day in 2018, Fiorillo, a specialist in Arctic paleontology, was looking for sign of dinosaurs and other prehistoric species in Alaska's Aniakchak National Monument and ...
The Fairweather Range is the unofficial name for a mountain range located in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains .
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Sabine is located in a marine subpolar climate zone, with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. [3] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Saint Elias Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.
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 ...