The Root Glacier And Mount Blackburn - Alaska

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The Root Glacier And Mount Blackburn - Alaska

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Jan Mulherin

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Photograph - Digital Photography

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You will eventually see many photographs of Mount Blackburn from me, as I found it to be the most beautiful peak in the Wrangell Mountains. To give you an idea of how enormous this mountain actually is, look towards the green mountain on the right and you will see some white specks. Blow up those white specks and you will realize those are actually people. If you notice, those people are almost as tall as the trees on the mountainside, which means they are not actually close to that mountain. Mount Blackburn is the snow-covered mountain in the back and is 30 miles away from those people. It is HUGE at 16,390 feet. I was in awe when I heard that from our tour guide.

Mount Blackburn is the highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska. It is the fifth-highest peak in the United States and the twelfth-highest peak in North America. The mountain is an old, eroded shield volcano, the second-highest volcano in the U.S. behind Mount Bona, and the fifth-highest in North America. It was named in 1885 by Lt. Henry T. Allen of the U.S. Army after Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn, a U.S. senator from Kentucky.[3] It is located in the heart of Wrangell – St. Elias National Park, the largest national park in the country.

The mountain's massif is covered almost entirely by icefields and glaciers, and is the principal source of ice for the Kennicott Glacier, which flows southeast over 20 miles (32 km) to just above the town of McCarthy. The mountain also contributes a large volume of ice to the north-flowing Nabesna Glacier and the Kuskulana Glacier system.

Mount Blackburn is a large, dramatic peak, with great local relief and independence from higher peaks. Its west face drops over 11,000 ft (3,350 m) to the Kuskulana Glacier in less than 4 horizontal miles (6.4 km). Its other faces drop 8,000–10,000 ft (2,440–3,050 m), all in less than 8 miles (13 km). The toe of the Kuskulana Glacier, less than 12 miles (19 km) from the summit, lies at an elevation of 2,400 ft (730 m), giving a rise of 14,000 ft (4,270 m). While these figures speak to the peak's relief, one measure of its independence is that it is the 50th-most topographically prominent peak in the world.

(Wikipedia)

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