Mount Seattle

Mountain in Alaska

Mount Seattle

Alaska

LocationYakutat, Alaska, U.S.Parent rangeSaint Elias MountainsTopo mapUSGS Mount Saint Elias A-4
Canada NTS 115B3 Mount SeattleClimbingFirst ascentFred Beckey team, 1966

Mount Seattle is a 10,350-foot (3,150 m) peak in the Saint Elias Mountains of Alaska in the United States. It was named for the city of Seattle, home of the "camp hands" of a 19th-century National Geographic Society–United States Geological Survey scientific expedition to the Hubbard Glacier and Mount Saint Elias.^[3] It is called the "most prominent Alaskan coastal peak" and blocks sight of larger inland peaks, even Mount Logan nearly twice its height.^[4]

It was first ascended in May 1966 by Fred Beckey, Eric Bjornstad and four other climbers.^[4]^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mount Seattle, Alaska". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
^ "Mount Seattle". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
^ Newton Horace Winchell, ed. (January 1891), "Explorations in Alaska", The American Geologist, p. 34
^ ^a ^b Beckey, Fred (2013), Fred Beckey's 100 Favorite North American Climbs, Patagonia, p. 11, ISBN 978-1938340093
^ Becky, Fred (1965), "Mt. Seattle – First Ascent", Canadian Alpine Journal, vol. 48–52, Alpine Club of Canada, p. 58
^ Fred Beckey (1967), "Mt. Seattle—19 Days at the 60th Parallel", The Mountaineer (annual), Seattle: The Mountaineers, p. 81