Mount Hubbard (Alaska)
| Mount Hubbard
Boundary Peak 179
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 Aerial view of Mount Kennedy from the north, with Mount Hubbard and Mount Alverstone to the right |
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| height | 4557 m | |
| location | Yukon (Canada), Alaska (USA) | |
| Mountains | Elias chain | |
| Dominance | 33.83 km → Mount Vancouver (Good Neighbor Peak) | |
| Notch height | 2437 m ↓ (2120 m) | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 19 ′ 10 ″ N , 139 ° 4 ′ 21 ″ W | |
| Topo map | USGS Mount Saint Elias B-3 | |
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| First ascent | July 26, 1951 by Walter Wood, Peter Wood, Robert Bates, Nicholas Clifford | |
The Mount Hubbard is a 4557 m high mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains on the border of Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon , 32 km north-east of Disenchantment Bay , a bay of Yakutat Bay . The US part is in Wrangell St. Elias National Park , the Canadian part in Kluane National Park .
The mountain was named in 1890 by geologist Israel Russell of the United States Geological Survey after Gardiner Greene Hubbard , the first chairman of the National Geographic Society , which helped fund Russell's expedition.
Mount Hubbard is the highest peak in a massif that also includes Mount Alverstone and Mount Kennedy . The Hubbard Glacier separates Mount Hubbard from Mount Vancouver to the west. The Lowell Glacier is on the eastern flank. Mount Hubbard is the eighth highest mountain in Alaska and the United States, and the twelfth highest in Canada.
The western flank of Mount Hubbard rises 2286 m above the Alverstone Glacier, about 3 km away . The summit towers over the Hubbard Glacier, about 11 km away, by 3353 m . Despite the steep flanks on the west side, the east side of the mountain offers an easy but long ascent to the summit.
Ascent history
The first ascent took place on July 26, 1951 by Walter Wood, Peter Wood, Robert Bates and Nicholas Clifford.
Web links
- Mount Hubbard in the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Mount Hubbard on Peakbagger.com (English)
- Mount Hubbard on Bivouac.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert H. Bates: Mount Hubbard and Mount Alverstone . American Alpine Journal. 1952. Retrieved October 29, 2017.