Mount Saint Elias
| Mount Saint Elias
Boundary Peak 186
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 The mountain as seen from Icy Bay, Alaska |
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| height | 5489 m | |
| location | Alaska (USA), Yukon (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Elias chain | |
| Dominance | 40.81 km → Mount Logan (Prospectors Peak) | |
| Notch height | 3409 m ↓ (2080 m) | |
| Coordinates | 60 ° 17 '34 " N , 140 ° 55' 51" W | |
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| First ascent | July 31, 1897 by Luigi Amadeo von Savoyen et al. | |
| Normal way | Glacier tour | |
The Mount Saint Elias is the third highest mountain in Canada and the United States and the fourth highest mountain in North America .
Geography / history
The mountain belonging to the Elias chain (also called Saint Elias Mountains ) is located on the US side in Alaska in Wrangell-St.-Elias National Park and on the Canadian side in Kluane National Park . In the United States, it is classified as a Fourteener because of its height of 18,009 feet . The mountain is believed to take its name from Cape Saint Elias on Kayak Island .
The mountain is called Tlingit Yaas'éit'aa Shaa, which means mountain behind an icy bay . Sometimes it is also called Shaa Tléin Big Mountain .
Mount Saint Elias is not, as is often claimed, the "relatively highest mountain in the world". Its 5489 m to the sea are exceeded among other things in the north flank of the Rakaposhi with 5980 m or also by the Pico Cristobal Colon in the Sierra St. Marta in Colombia. The latter has a notch height of 5,584 meters and is barely 35 kilometers as the crow flies from the coastline.
The Eliasberg ( 5575 m high according to measurements at the time ) was climbed for the first time on July 31, 1897 by Luigi Amadeo of Savoy (1873–1933), Duke of Abruzzo, and twenty companions.
The second ascent followed in 1946 through an expedition of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, where Andrew Kauffman , Betty Kauffman, Dee Molenaar, Cornelius Molenaar, Maynard Miller, William Latady and Benjamin Ferris reached the summit. Eleven camps were set up to cope with the 5489 meters of altitude from sea level to the summit.
documentary
The 2009 documentary Mount St. Elias by Austrian director Gerald Salmina shows an expedition in which the entire mountain was skied.
literature
- Joachim Rienhardt: Mount St. Elias. The longest ski run in the world. A true story by Axel Naglich , Tyrolia Verlag, Innsbruck 2010 ISBN 978-3-7022-3065-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ H (ugo) Gerbers (Red.): Touristic. (...) Ascent of the Eliasberg. In: Dillinger's Reise- und Fremd -Zeitung , No. 28/1897 (8th year), October 1, 1897, p. 7, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .
Web links
- Mount Saint Elias on bivouac.com (English)
- Mount Saint Elias at Peakware (English)