Mount Foraker

Mount Foraker

Mount Foraker
Highest point
Elevation 17,400 ft (5304 m) [1][2] NAVD88
Prominence 7250 ft (2210 m) [2]
Isolation 14.27 mi (23.0 km) [2]
Parent peak Denali[2]
Listing
Coordinates 62°57′39″N 151°23′53″W / 62.96083°N 151.39806°W / 62.96083; -151.39806Coordinates: 62°57′39″N 151°23′53″W / 62.96083°N 151.39806°W / 62.96083; -151.39806 [3]
Geography
Mount Foraker

Alaska

Location Denali Borough, Alaska, United States
Parent range Alaska Range
Topo map USGS Talkeetna D-3
Climbing
First ascent August 10, 1934
Easiest route basic 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]

Naming

Mount Foraker was named in 1899 by Lt. J. S. Herron after Joseph B. Foraker, then a sitting U.S. Senator from Ohio.[5]

The mountain, along with Denali, was called Bolshaya Gora ("big mountain") in Russian. The Tanaina Indians of the Susitna River valley and Tanana Indians to the north are reported to have had the same name (Denali) for Mt. Foraker as they had for Denali (previously Mount McKinley), and it appears that the names were not applied to individual peaks but instead to the Denali massif. The Tanana Indians in the Lake Minchumina area, however, had a broadside view of the mountains and thus gave distinctive names to each. According to Hudson Stuck, these Indians had two names for Mount Foraker: Sultana meaning "the woman" and Menlale meaning "Denali's wife".[3]

Notable ascents

Mt Foraker, on the left, is shown near Denali, on the right, taken from Kashwitna Lake roughly 100 miles (160 km) south of the mountains. Mt Hunter is just to the left of Denali.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Elevations and Distances in the United States". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Foraker". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2010-03-20.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mount Foraker". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2004-10-07.
  4. ↑ "Mount Foraker". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  5. ↑ Geological Survey Professional Paper, Volume 567. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1967. p. 345.
  6. ↑ Roach, Gerard (1976). "The Archangel - Foraker's North Ridge". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 20 (50): 277. ISBN 978-0-930410-73-5.
  7. ↑ Bleser, Warren; Bertulis, Alex (1969). "Mount Foraker's South Ridge". American Alpine Journal. Philadelphia, PA, USA: American Alpine Club. 16 (43): 289–294.
  8. ↑ Reagan, Peter (1975). "Mount Foraker, Southeast Ridge". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 20 (49): 116.
  9. ↑ Roach, Gerard (1976). "The Archangel - Foraker's North Ridge". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 20 (50): 277–284. ISBN 978-0-930410-73-5.
  10. ↑ Agresti, Henri (1977). "Mount Foraker, South-Southeast Ridge". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 21 (51): 149–152.
  11. ↑ Selters, Andy (2004). Ways to the Sky. Golden, CO, USA: American Alpine Club Press. p. 263. ISBN 0-930410-83-1.
  12. ↑ LeRoy, Erik (1978). "Foraker's Southwest Ridge". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 21 (52): 359–365.
  13. ↑ Bebie, Mark (1990). "Foraker's Infinite Spur". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 32 (64): 28–35. ISBN 0-930410-43-2.
  14. ↑ "False Dawn—Foraker". American Alpine Club. Retrieved 2015-03-14.

Notes

  1. ^ This ranking includes Denali North Peak as number 2.
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