Mount Saint Elias is an 18,008 foot mountain located approximately 11 miles northeast of the Pacific Ocean on the Yukon-Alaska border. It is the second-highest mountain in both Canada and the United S
Mount St. Elias from Icy Bay, Alaska
Mount Saint Elias from Icy Bay
Mount St Elias from Malaspina Glacier, photograph by Vittorio Sella on the first expedition to climb the mountain, 1897
Tlingit ceremonial tunic given to Maynard Miller and members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club Mt. St. Elias expedition, 1946
Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada, and the second-highest peak in North America after Denali. The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the
Mount Saint Elias
…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…
Mount Logan from the southeast
Mount Logan from the North East, as seen from Kluane Icefield
A climber on the knife ridge (east ridge)