- Mount Natazhat
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Mount Natazhat Elevation 13,435 ft (4,095 m) [1] Prominence 5,935 ft (1,809 m) [1] Listing Ultra Location Location Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA Range Saint Elias Mountains Coordinates 61°31′19″N 141°06′04″W / 61.5219444°N 141.1011111°WCoordinates: 61°31′19″N 141°06′04″W / 61.5219444°N 141.1011111°W[2] Topo map USGS McCarthy C-1 i Climbing First ascent June, 1913 by Canadian Boundary Survey party (disputed) [3] Easiest route Northeast Ridge: glacier/snow climb Mount Natazhat is a high peak of the Saint Elias Mountains, of Alaska, United States, just west of the border with the Yukon Territory of Canada. It lies on the northern edge of the range, south of the White River and north of the Klutlan Glacier. Mount Natazhat is a little-noticed peak; however it is a very large peak in terms of rise above local terrain. It rises 9,000 feet (2,743 m) in less than 7 miles (11.3 km) above the lowlands to the north, and 7,500 feet (2,286 m) in about 4 miles (6.4 km) above the Klutlan Glacier to the south.
The current standard route is that of the second ascent along the northeast ridge. This route was first climbed in 1996 by D. Hart, P. Barry, H. Hunt, and D. Lucey. It is moderately serious by Alaskan standards (Alaska Grade 3+), with some steep ice and corniced ridges.[3]
Mount Natazhat is not often climbed due to its remote location and the fact that it is not a particularly high peak, especially by Alaskan standards. (Also, it is not even a fourteener.) In fact, the only mention of the peak in the complete Index of the American Alpine Journal is for the 1996 ascent noted above.[4]
See also
- 4000 meter peaks of Alaska
- 4000 metre peaks of Canada
- 4000 meter peaks of North America
- 4000 meter peaks of the United States
- Mountain peaks of Alaska
- Mountain peaks of Canada
- Mountain peaks of North America
- Mountain peaks of the United States
References
- ^ a b "Mount Natazhat, Alaska". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=494. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- ^ "Mount Natazhat". Geographic Names Information System, U.S. Geological Survey. http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1406862. Retrieved 2009-02-26.
- ^ a b Wood, Michael; Colby Coombs (2001). Alaska : a climbing guide (1st ed.). Seattle: The Mountaineers. ISBN 0-89886-724-X.
- ^ Index of the American Alpine Journal
Categories:- Mountains of Alaska
- Landforms of Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska
- Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Valdez–Cordova Census Area, Alaska geography stubs
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