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  2. Mount Saint Elias - Wikipedia

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    Tlingit ceremonial tunic given to Maynard Miller and members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club Mt. St. Elias expedition, 1946. Mt. St. Elias was first climbed on July 31, 1897, by an Italian expedition led by famed explorer Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, [7] [8] (who also reconnoitered the current standard route on K2 in 1909 [9 ...

  3. Saint Elias Mountains - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. File:NPS wrangell-st-elias-map.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: WRSTmap1; Image title: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve; Author: National Park Service: Keywords: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve

  6. Haydon Peak - Wikipedia

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    Haydon Peak is part of the Saint Elias Mountains in Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. [3] The glaciated peak is located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Mount Saint Elias and 66 miles (106 km) northwest of Yakutat, Alaska. [5] The mountain is surrounded by the Libbey Glacier to the east and Tyndall Glacier to the west.

  7. Kluane National Park and Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Reserve includes the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan (5,959 metres or 19,551 feet) of the Saint Elias Mountains. Mountains and glaciers, including Donjek Glacier, dominate the park's landscape, covering 83% of its area. The rest of the land in the park is forest and tundra—east of the largest mountains and glaciers—where the ...

  8. Alaska–St. Elias Range tundra - Wikipedia

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    Indeed, Denali (Mount McKinley), the highest peak in North America at 6,100 m, is located here, while the St Elias Mountains reach as high as 6000 m and are some of the highest peaks in Canada. This ecoregion is largely separated from the coast by the Pacific coastal mountain icefields and tundra so the climate is continental.

  9. Category:Saint Elias Mountains - Wikipedia

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    The Saint Elias Mountains is a mountain range in the Canadian province of British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the second highest mountain range in Canada and the US, after the Alaska Range (which contains Denali).