Mount Foraker

Mount Foraker
Mount Foraker
Highest point
Elevation17,400 ft (5304 m)[1][2]
NAVD88
Prominence7250 ft (2210 m)[2]
Parent peakDenali[2]
Isolation14.27 mi (23.0 km)[2]
Listing
Coordinates62°57′39″N 151°23′53″W / 62.96083°N 151.39806°W / 62.96083; -151.39806[3]
Naming
EtymologyJoseph B. Foraker
Geography
Mount Foraker is located in Alaska
Mount Foraker
Mount Foraker
Alaska
LocationDenali Borough, Alaska, United States
Parent rangeAlaska Range
Topo mapUSGS Talkeetna D-3
Climbing
First ascentAugust 10, 1934
Easiest routebasic snow/ice

Mount Foraker is a 17,400-foot (5,304 m) mountain in the central Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, 14 mi (23 km) southwest of Denali. It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States. It rises almost directly above the standard base camp for Denali, on a fork of the Kahiltna Glacier also near Mount Hunter in the Alaska Range.

Its north peak was first climbed on August 6, 1934, and its higher south peak was climbed four days later on August 10, by Charles Houston, T. Graham Brown, and Chychele Waterston, via the west ridge.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Elevations and Distances in the United States". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d "Mount Foraker". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
  3. ^ a b "Mount Foraker". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2004-10-07.
  4. ^ "Mount Foraker". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2008-07-10.