Mount Augusta

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Mount Augusta is a 4289 m high mountain in the Elias chain on the border of Alaska and the Canadian Yukon Territory. He is one of the mountains known as Fourteener in the USA.

Mount Augusta is located approximately 25 km south of Mount Logan and 25 km east of Mount Saint Elias, the two highest mountains in Canada. The Seward Glacier on the northern slope of Mount Augusta separates the mountain from Mount Logan.

The first ascent was held by Pete Schoening, Victor Josendal, Bill Niendorf, Richard E. McGowen, Bob Yeasting, Gibson Reynolds, Tom Morris and Verl Rogers on July 4, 1952.

Was named the mountain in 1891 by IC Russell from the United States Geological Survey for his wife Augusta J. Olmsted Russell.

Peaks that lie on the boundary line of Alaska to British Columbia or the Yukon Territory, are known as " Boundary Peaks" ( German: Grenzgipfel ) numbered. Mount Augusta bears the number 183