Mount Marcus Baker
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Mount Marcus Baker is the highest peak of the Chugach Mountains of Alaska. It is located approximately 75 miles east of Anchorage. This peak is very prominent because of its proximity to tidewater and
Mt. Marcus Baker centered at top
Marcus Baker
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Marcus Baker was an American naturalist, explorer of Alaska, journalist, and newspaper editor.
Mount Marcus Baker
…it after his wife Agnes, adding the "Saint" in hopes of making the name stick. The name was later changed to honor a cartographer and geologist named Marcus Baker. The peak was first climbed on June 19, 1938 by a party led by famed explorer Bradford Washburn; the climb took almost two months owing to weather…
Studio portrait of Marcus Baker
Photograph of Marcus Baker as a young man in wire-rim glasses with a dark beard. Probably from the early 1880s when Baker worked in Los Angeles.
Marcus Baker's portrait