Mount Cook (Elias chain)
| Mount Cook
Boundary Peak 182
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| height | 4194 m | |
| location | Alaska (USA), Yukon (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Elias chain | |
| Dominance | 22.85 km → Mount Vancouver (Good Neighbor Peak) | |
| Notch height | 2335 m ↓ Valerie-Seward Glacier Pass (1859 m) | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 10 '54 " N , 139 ° 58' 52" W | |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Saint Elias A-6 | |
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| First ascent | August 1, 1953 by Richard McGowan, T. Kelley, Richard Long, Thomas Miller, Franz Mohling | |
The Mount Cook is a 4194 m high mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains on the border of Alaska to the Canadian territory of Yukon . The summit forms one of the corner points of the boundary line, which in this area zigzags in straight lines between several main peaks. On the Canadian side lies the Kluane National Park , on the American side the Wrangell St. Elias National Park . The mountain was named in 1874 by H. Dall of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey after James Cook .
Mount Cook is located around 30 km southeast of Mount Augusta (also a border corner point). Disenchantment Bay , a bay in the Gulf of Alaska, is just 30 km south . Peaks that lie on the border line from Alaska to British Columbia or to the Yukon Territory are numbered consecutively as "Boundary Peaks" ( German : Grenzgipfel). Mount Cook is number 182.
Ascent history
The first ascent of Mount Cook was made on August 1, 1953 by a mountaineering group from Seattle consisting of Richard McGowan, T. Kelley, Richard Long, Thomas Miller and Franz Mohling.
Web links
- Mount Cook in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Bivouac.com over Mount Cook (English)
- Peakbagger.com about Mount Cook (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard McGowan: Mt. Logan-Cook Expedition, 1953 . American Alpine Journal. 1954. Retrieved October 29, 2017.