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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 ...
The Wrangell Mountains are a high mountain range of eastern Alaska in the United States.Much of the range is included in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.The Wrangell Mountains are almost entirely volcanic in origin, and they include the second and third highest volcanoes in the United States, Mount Blackburn and Mount Sanford.
Mount Wrangell, (Ahtna: K’ełt’aeni, or K’ełedi when erupting) [3] is a massive shield volcano located in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska, United States. The shield rises over 12,000 feet (3,700 m) above the Copper River to its southwest.
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 ...
Wiki Peak is a mountain in the Nutzotin Mountains of Alaska within Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. It is located near the Canada–United States border. The best way to reach Wiki Peak is to charter a flight into Horsfeld. Crossing Beaver Creek is necessary to access Wiki Peak.
Hanagita Peak is a summit in the Chugach Mountains in the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve of Alaska, United States. [1] The prominent is 6,004-foot (1,830 m) ranking it 67th on the list of prominent peaks in the United States. [2] The peak was named in 1911 and is named after Chief Hanagita of Chitina. [1] [4]
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Fireweed Mountain is a prominent 6,956-foot (2,120 meter) mountain summit located in the Wrangell Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, immediately west of the terminus of the Kennicott Glacier, and 5 mi (8 km) west-northwest of McCarthy.