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Mount Cook (or Boundary Peak 182) is a high peak on the Yukon Territory-Alaska border, in the Saint Elias Mountains of North America. It is approximately 15 mi (24 km) southwest of Mount Vancouver and 35 mi (56 km) miles east-southeast of Mount Saint Elias. It forms one of the corners of the jagged border, which is defined to run in straight ...
Of the 100 most prominent summits of Alaska, only Denali exceeds 4000 meters (13,123 feet) of topographic prominence, six peaks exceed 3000 meters (9843 feet), 26 peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), and 65 peaks are ultra-prominent summits with at least 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence.
Mount Bear Alaska: Saint Elias Mountains: 4520 m 14,831 ft: 1540 m 5,054 ft: 32.4 km 20.1 mi 22 Mount Walsh Yukon: Saint Elias Mountains ... Mount Cook Alaska
Yakutat Icefield – an expanse of ice in southeast Alaska – in 2018. 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 ...
PHOTO: In this Dec. 16, 2020, file photo, Mt Spurr, an active large stratovolcano that last erupted in 1992, is shown along the western edge of Cook Inlet between Anchorage, Alaska, and Lake Clark NP.
Redoubt Volcano, or Mount Redoubt (Dena'ina: Bentuggezh K’enulgheli), is an active stratovolcano in the largely volcanic Aleutian Range of the U.S. state of Alaska. Located at the head of the Chigmit Mountains subrange in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve , the mountain is just west of Cook Inlet , in the Kenai Peninsula Borough about 110 ...
Mount Spurr erupted once in 1953 and three times in 1992, according to the observatory. Both years saw eruptions at the Crater Peak vent, located two miles south of the volcano’s summit.
Mount Susitna, also known as Sleeping Lady, (Dena'ina: Dghelishla) is a 4,396-foot (1,340 m) mountain in the U.S. state of Alaska.It is located on the west bank of the lower Susitna River, about 33 miles (53 km) northwest of Anchorage, Alaska. [1]