Mount Saint Elias

The mountain seen from Icy Bay ( Alaska) from

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Mount Saint Elias is the second highest mountain in Canada and the United States.

Geography / History

The chain to the Elias (also Saint Elias Mountains ) belonging mountain is on the U.S. side in Alaska in the Wrangell-St Elias National Park and on the Canadian side in Kluane National Park. In the U.S. it is classified due to its altitude of 18 009 feet as Fourteener. It is believed that the mountain takes its name from the Cape Saint Elias on Kayak Iceland.

The mountain is called in the language of Tlingit Yaas'éit'aa Shaa, which means mountain behind Icy Bay. Sometimes it is also called Shaa Tléin great mountain.

Mount Saint Elias is not, as is often claimed, the " relatively highest mountain in the world ". His 5489 m from the sea will be exceeded in the northern flank of Rakaposhi 5980 m.

The Eliasberg (after the then surveying 5575 m) was climbed on July 31, 1897 Luigi Amadeo of Savoy ( 1873-1933 ) and twenty companions for the first time.

The second ascent was made in 1946 by an expedition of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, while Andrew Kauffman, Betty Kauffman, Dee Molenaar, Cornelius Molenaar, Maynard Miller, William Latady and Benjamin Ferris came to the summit. To cope with the 5489 meters in altitude from sea level to the summit eleven camps were established.

Documentary

Originally from the 2009 documentary Mount St. Elias by Austrian director Gerald Salmina shows an expedition, in which the entire mountain has been covered with skis.