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The Saint Elias Mountains form the highest coastal mountain range on Earth. It formed due to the subduction of the Yakutat microplate underneath the North American Plate . The Yakutat microplate is a wedge shaped oceanic plateau with a thickness of 20 to 30 kilometres (12 to 19 mi). [ 5 ]
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 ...
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 ...
(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: 21.3 mi 34.4 km
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of North America. ... Map this section's coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Saint Elias Mountains: 11,050 ft 3368 m ...
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. Rainfall varies ...
Map this section's coordinates ... Saint Elias Mountains: 5956 m 19,541 ft ... The 50 most topographically prominent summits of greater North America; Rank Mountain peak
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).