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	Mount Saint Elias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)

Mount Saint Elias is the second highest mountain in both the United States and Canada, being situated on the Alaska and Yukon border.

While some historians contend that the mountain was named by Bering, others believe that eighteenth century mapmakers named it after Cape Saint Elias, when it was left unnamed by Bering.

Elias was first climbed on July 31, 1897 by Duke of the Abruzzi, Vittorio Sella and party.

www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Mount_Saint_Elias (251 words)

	MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Yukon Territory
		To the southwest of the plateau lie the rugged peaks of the Saint Elias Mountains, which belong to the Coast Ranges of western North America and thus are classified with the Western System of the Cordillera.
		The Saint Elias Mountains also contain the mountain that was named for United States president John F. Kennedy after his assassination in 1963.
		In the extreme north and in the mountainous areas the climate is arctic.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761576299___30/Yukon_Territory.html (597 words)

	The St. Elias Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mount Saint Elias (18,008') is the second highest in the United States and the third highest n
		The Saint Elias exceed the Himalayas in vertical relief, with hundreds of sharp ice-clad peaks rising dramatically above sea-level glaciers.
		This mountain range is also home to the greatest number of glaciers in North America, including the mighty Malaspina and active Hubbard.
	www.nps.gov /wrst/virtualtour/steliasmtns.htm (108 words)

	MSN Encarta - Yukon Territory
		To the outsider the Yukon Territory remains inextricably associated with the rush for gold in the Klondike region at the end of the 19th century.
		Its mountainous terrain and severe climate have discouraged settlement and the development of other important economic activities.
		This mountain system contains the highest mountains in the Yukon, including 5,959-m (19,551-ft) Mount Logan, the highest peak in Canada.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761576299 (609 words)

	Canadian, Highest Mountains, Hiking Trails, Province Yukon Travel, Logan
		The Ogilvie Mountain Range is situated in the eastern part of the Yukon and extends to the border of the North West Territories.
		The Pelly Mountains are situated north of the Rocky Mountains in the southern part of the Yukon.
		The Saint Elias Mountains are part of the Coast Ranges in the southwestern part of the Yukon Territory.
	www.traveltocanadanow.com /article.asp?article_id=54 (251 words)

	Saint Elias Mountains -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		In 1741 Vitus Bering sighted Mount St. Elias from his ship and became the first official European discoverer of northwestern America.
		Called the five-fingered mountain by the ancient epic poet Homer, the Taíyetos range, which is the highest mountain chain in the Peloponnese, consists of a narrow ridge of crystalline...
		Bulgarian novelist and playwright Elias Canetti was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1981.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9377477 (839 words)

	Alaska state (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alaska is a rugged, wild, beautiful land of majestic mountains and deep, high-walled fjords; of slow-moving glaciers and still-active volcanoes; of dense, coniferous forests and desolate, treeless islands; of hot springs and icy streams.
		The second tallest mountain, Mount Saint Elias (5,489 m/18,008 ft), is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, a park characterized by remote mountains, valleys, and wild rivers, all rich with wildlife.
		This national forest boasts numerous trails to the wooded mountains and crystal waters of the Kenai Peninsula, the islands and glaciers of Prince William Sound, and the wetlands and birds of the Copper River Delta.
	www.theusaonline.com /states/alaska.htm (15565 words)

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		The thickness and density of the new snow is being measured to determine its volume and water content, as well as to study its metamorphism to glacier ice.
		August 1997 north-looking oblique aerial photograph of the moraine-covered surface of a stagnant piece of the former terminus of the Malaspina Glacier, Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park, Saint Elias Mountains, Alaska.
		Occasionally, the lower end of a moulin may be exposed in the face of a glacier or at the edge of a stagnant block of ice.
	pubs.usgs.gov /of/2004/1216/m/m.html (1029 words)

	Saint Elias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Elijah, a Hebrew prophet revered as a Christian saint
		Mount Saint Elias, the second highest mountain in Canada and the United States.
		Saint Elias Mountains, a mountain range in Alaska and Yukon
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Elias (97 words)

	McKinley, Mount -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Located in the St. Elias Mountains of southwestern Yukon Territory, the peak towers about 14,000 feet (4,300 m) above the Seward Glacier at the Alaska border to the south and is a focal point of Kluane National Park, an 8,500-square-mile (22,000-square-kilometre)...
		Mountain climbers are challenged by the lofty peaks and rugged terrain of the Alaska Range.
		The mountains stretch from the Aleutian Range in south-central Alaska to the Yukon boundary in southern Alaska.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9275594 (913 words)

	Alaskan Mountain Ranges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This mountain range is one of Alaska's largest, starting at Alaska's eastern border with Canada, arcing across the north of Southcentral Alaska, ending to the west of the Kenai Peninsula.
		The St. Elias Mountains begin on mainland Alaska south of the Wrangell Mountains and east of the Chugach Mountains.
		The Wrangell Mountains is a block of mountains sandwiched by the Chugach and St. Elias Mountains on the south and the Alaska Range's Mentasta Mountains on the north.
	www.greatlandofalaska.com /reference/maps/ranges.html (1340 words)

	Saint Elias Mountains -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		A mountain is a landform that rises prominently above its surroundings.
		As a Nigerian government official and an international jurist, Taslim Elias had a distinguished career that culminated in his election to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a judge (1976–91), vice president (1979–82), acting president (1981–82), and president (1982–85).
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064842?tocId=9064842 (831 words)

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		Hike its mountains, float its rivers, ski its glaciers, or fly over this landscape and you witness living geology.
		Four major mountain ranges meet in the park, which includes nine of the 16 highest peaks in the United States.
		Mountain slopes have a diversity of plants, dwarf shrubs, and grasses where dall sheep and mountain goats patrol the craggy peaks.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /2004/articles2/pre.htm (665 words)

	Alaska - USA State World History of India, Alaska - USA State, Alaska, north by Arctic Ocean, east by Yukon Territory, ...
		Alaska may be divided into four geographic regions--the Pacific mountain system of the south, the central region of uplands and lowlands, the BROOKS RANGE (the northernmost extension of the Rocky Mountains), and the Arctic coastal plain, or North Slope.
		The ranges, many of which have large glaciers, rise to 5,489 m (18,008 ft) at Mount Saint Elias, in the Saint Elias Mountains, and to 4,996 m (16,391 ft) at Mount Blackburn, in the Wrangell Mountains.
		In 1741, Bering undertook a second voyage to Alaska, during which Mount Saint Elias was sighted and a party, under Aleksei Chirikov, landed at Kayak Island.
	www.4to40.com /earth/history/index.asp?article=earth_history_alaska (3162 words)

	Issihk.com - Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Saint Elias Mountains and the volcanic Wrangell Mountains lie in the northern Alaska Panhandle and in adjoining areas of Canada.
		The second tallest mountain, Mount Saint Elias (5489 m/18,008 ft), is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve.
		At the foot of Mount Saint Elias is the Malaspina Glacier, which covers an area larger than Rhode Island.
	www.issicn.com /alaska.htm (2488 words)

	British Columbia 2 from Hospitality North, Prince George, Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		This region is dominated by the Rocky Mountains.
		The most prominent valley in the region is the Rocky Mountain Trench, a deep, narrow rift valley between the Rocky Mountains in the east and the Columbia Mountain system in the west.
		The Western Mountain System is dominated by the glacier-covered Coast Mountains, which include the province's highest peak, Mount Fairweather, in the extreme northwest.
	www3.telus.net /hospitalitynorth/bc-1.htm (2540 words)

	ipedia.com: Mount Logan Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Mount Logan is Canada's highest mountain and the second-highest peak in North America (Denali is the highest).
		The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC).
		Following the death of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, the Jean Chrétien government considered renaming the mountain Mount Trudeau; however, this faced opposition from Yukoners, mountaineers, and Western Canadians, and the plan was dropped.
	www.ipedia.com /mount_logan.html (262 words)

	Skiing the Pacific Ring of Fire and Beyond: Alaska & Northwest Canada
		The largest mountain mass in North America lies in southeastern Alaska and the Canadian Yukon, the rugged Wrangell and Saint Elias Mountains.
		Most of this range is non-volcanic, uplifted by the same collisional forces as the Alaska Range, and it includes the 2nd and 4th highest peaks in North America, Mounts Logan and Saint Elias.
		Numerous smaller centers are also scattered throughout the region, such as Mount Edgecumbe and Hoodoo Mountain, many of which erupted subglacially through the large ice sheets which once covered the region during the Ice Age.
	www.skimountaineer.com /ROF/Region.php?region=AlaskaCanada (739 words)

	Escape from Lucania: An epic story of survival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Virtually inaccessible deep within the Wrangell-St. Elias range, it was pronounced "impregnable" by the leader of an unsuccessful expedition in 1935.
		But their pilot was barely able to take off alone, due to the unexpectedly slushy Walsh Glacier and conditions made it impossible for him to return.
		The two men were left stranded in the midst of the Yukon's most rugged wilderness with only half their team and part of their supplies.
	www.bivouac.com /GdePg.asp?GdeId=115 (219 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		In the southwest corner of the Yukon Territory in the Saint Elias Mountains of Kluane National Park, at 5,959 meters (19,550 feet) Mount Logan is Canada's tallest point, and the second highest peak on the continent.
		The researchers also say the snow accumulation was greatest in the past 10 years and that their findings are consistent with other research that demonstrates global warming.
		It sits within the heavily glaciated Saint Elias mountains, and according to the research team is "situated in a region of climatological importance."
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/dec2002/2002-12-02-10.asp (910 words)

	UAF Newsroom: Southeast Alaska on the rise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Two areas on the Alaska panhandle--Glacier Bay and the Yakutat ice field (a group of glaciers in the Saint Elias Mountains southeast of Yakutat)--are rising at a rate of about 30 millimeters per year.
		By comparison, the world's largest mountains in Nepal and Tibet are rising about five millimeters each year.
		Geophysical Institute researchers believe the rapid uplift in Southeast Alaska is due to isostatic rebound, the reaction of Earth's crust to the removal of staggering amounts of glacial ice.
	www.uaf.edu /news/story/research/southeast.html (160 words)

	SCA Destination Finder
		The Fairweather and Saint Elias mountains have been etched by glacial erosion into a high, jagged palisade.
		Desolation Valley takes ice from the mountains like a huge gutter and channels it to a few outlet valleys where the ice reaches the sea.
		Camp near one of the beach-estuary complexes which comprise critical habitat for a variety of fish and wildlife, notably brown bears, wolves, waterfowl, and salmon.
	syndication.getoutdoors.com /sca/destination_regions/5588.html (313 words)

	Wrangell - St Elias National Park & Preserve (National Park Service)
		Mount St. Elias, at 18,008 feet, is the second highest peak in the United States.
		Adjacent to Canada's Kluane National Park, the site is characterized by remote mountains, sweeping valleys, wild rivers, and a variety of wildlife.
		Proclaimed as Wrangell-St. Elias National Monument Dec. 1, 1978; established as a national park and preserve Dec. 2, 1980.
	www.nps.gov /wrst (128 words)

	Kluane, Mt Logan, Northern BC & Alaska Mountaineering Treks, Hikes & Backcountry Expeditions
		The awe-inspiring mountains of northwestern British Columbia and the Yukon are remote and magical places, perfect for days of travel on foot and nights under the stars.
		The Saint Elias Mountains in the Yukon's Kluane Park are the best-kept secret in the mountaineering world.
		While Canada's highest mountain, Mt. Logan, stands above all else, the park is also known for brilliant displays of colour in the changing seasons.
	www.bearmountaineering.ca /spring_summer/expeditions_hikes_treks.php (279 words)

	Natural History: Flight to the Ice Age - Canada's Yukon Territory - Brief Article
		The Saint Elias range--including 19,545-foot Mount Logan, the second highest peak on the continent--is the centerpiece of Kluane (pronounced kloo-WAH-nee) National Park and Reserve.
		The trail then follows an easy ascent through spruce forest and woods dominated by quaking aspen until it reaches a rock glacier--a huge slide of rocks and boulders that was created by the action of ice.
		Freezing and thawing fractured the underlying sedimentary rocks, and the fragments, lubricated by meltwater, were carried down the mountain by a slow-moving core of glacial ice.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1134/is_7_108/ai_55698590 (858 words)

	Press: Third Semester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Buhler is a world class mountaineer with the summits of some of the world’s highest mountains under his belt.
		Located in the Saint Elias Mountains about 40 miles east of McCarthy, University Peak towers to approximately 14,800 feet just south of the better known Mount Bona.
		Buhler and Sassara prepared for the climb by studying photos and a video of the mountain Charlie had shot from a plane to determine the gear they would need and the potential difficulties they’d face.
	www.anchoragepress.com /archives/documentc879.html (821 words)

	SummitPost.org - Message Board - General - Wrangell Mountains
		Mout Fairweather (4670 m) in the Saint Elias Mountains is neither in SP.
		Yeti, St. Elias Guides are probably the best resource for routes and unclimbed routes and summits in the Wrangells, St. Elias, and Chugach ranges.
		I was going to add Saint Elias one day I have been part of the way up once but it hard to get good phots of it as I have none.
	www.summitpost.org /show/mread.pl?f_id=5&t_id=24549 (332 words)

	Alaska Cabin Rentals & Cottage Rental, Cottage Canada - USA
		In the northern section of the Alaska Panhandle and in adjoining areas of Canada are the Saint Elias Mountains, which reach 18,008 ft above sea level at Mount Saint Elias, one of the highest peaks in North America.
		It is bounded on the north and west by the Alaska Range, a belt of mountains 50 to 60 mi wide that is connected with the Saint Elias Mountains on the east.
		The Alaska Range includes Mount McKinley, whose south peak is the highest point in North America at 20,320 ft. The coastal section of south central Alaska resembles that of the Panhandle.
	www.cottage-canada-usa.com /alaska.htm (1266 words)

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