Mount Hunter | Begguya Rising in a maze of glaciers and towering granite walls just south of Denali, Mount Hunter is one of the most formidable mountains in the Alaska Range. At 14,573 feet (4,442 meters), it is the third-highest major summit in the range after Denali and Mount Foraker, yet its lower elevation does …
Category: Alaska-Yukon Ranges
Nov 09 2023
Mount Foraker
Mount Foraker Rising as an immense white massif southwest of Denali, Mount Foraker is the second-highest major summit in the Alaska Range and one of the great glaciated mountains of North America. At 17,400 feet (5,303.5 meters), it towers above the Kahiltna Glacier and an extraordinary wilderness of icefalls, crevasses, sharp ridges, hanging glaciers, and …