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Mount Saint Elias
Sign in to saveAlso known as Boundary Peak 186, Mount St. Elias, Mt. Saint Elias, Mt. St. Elias, Mont Saint Elie, Waa'eit'ashaa, Waas'eita Shaa, Was'eitushaa
mountain on the Canada-United States border
Key facts
- Elevation
- 18,008 ft (5,489 m) , NAVD88
- Prominence
- 11,250 ft (3,430 m)
- Parent peak
- Mount Logan
- Isolation
- 25.6 mi (41.2 km)
- Listing
- World most prominent peaks 53rd North America highest peaks 4th North America prominent peaks 11th Canada highest major peaks 2nd US highest major peaks 2nd
- Location
- Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska , U.S./ Yukon , Canada
- Parent range
- Saint Elias Mountains
- Topo map s
- USGS Mt. Saint Elias, NTS 115C7 Newton Glacier
- First ascent
- 1897 by Duke of the Abruzzi
- Easiest route
- glacier/snow/ice climb
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Canada
- Located in
- Yukon
- Continent
- Americas
- Elevation
- 5500
- Image
- Mt Saint Elias, South Central Alaska.jpg
- Significant event
- first ascent
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- Commons category
- Mount Saint Elias
- located in protected area
- Kluane National Park and Reserve
- topographic prominence
- 3448
- topographic isolation
- 41
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- mountain range
- Saint Elias Mountains
- described at URL
- openbeta.io/area/27e9af31-30e3-5f22-9495-e08e9db0bda0
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Saint Elias (Was'eitushaa, also designated Boundary Peak 186) is an 18,008 foot (5,489 m) mountain located approximately 11 miles (18 km) northeast of the Pacific Ocean on the Yukon-Alaska border. It is the second-highest mountain in both Canada and the United States, as well as in the Yukon and Alaska. The Canadian side of Mount Saint Elias forms part of Kluane National Park and Reserve, while the U.S. side of the mountain is located within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
Although it is only 26 miles (42 km) southwest of Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, it nonetheless retains a high prominence due to the low Columbus-Seward Glacier separating them. Due to notoriously bad weather and difficult climbing routes, Mount Saint Elias is infrequently climbed.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Saint Elias” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.