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Mount Witherspoon
Mountain in the state of Alaska / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mount Witherspoon is a 12,012-foot-elevation (3,661 meter) glaciated summit located 36 mi (58 km) northwest of Valdez in the Chugach Mountains of the U.S. state of Alaska. It's set on land managed by Chugach National Forest. This remote mountain, fifth-highest in the Chugach range, is situated 4.33 mi (7 km) northwest of Mount Einstein, with the heads of Yale Glacier and Columbia Glacier between the summits.[5] It is the second-highest peak in the Dora Keen Range, which is the 25-miles-long divide separating Harvard Glacier from Yale Glacier.[6] The mountain's name was officially adopted in 1928 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to honor David C. Witherspoon, a U.S. Geological Survey topographer for 30 years, "who at the time of his retirement in 1921 had mapped a greater area of Alaska than any other man."[6] The first ascent of Mount Witherspoon was made June 25, 1957, by David Bohn, Arthur Maki, Jr., Martin Mushkin, and Lawrence E. Nielsen.[2]
Mount Witherspoon | |
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![]() Mt. Witherspoon right of center, from NW (Mount Edison slightly left of center) | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 12,012 ft (3,661 m)[1] |
Prominence | 2,162 ft (659 m)[1] |
Parent peak | Mount Gilbert Lewis (12,250+ ft)[2] |
Isolation | 4.13 mi (6.65 km)[3] |
Listing | Highest major summits of the US 3000-meter summits of the US |
Coordinates | 61°23′44″N 147°12′03″W[1] |
Geography | |
Location | Chugach National Forest Valdez-Cordova Borough Alaska, United States |
Parent range | Chugach Mountains |
Topo map | USGS Anchorage B-1 |
Climbing | |
First ascent | June 25, 1957[4] |