Mount Wilbur (Alaska)

Mount Wilbur

Mts Orville and Wilbur

Highest point
Elevation| 10,821 ft (3,298 m) [1]
Prominence| 3,963 ft (1,208 m) [1]
Coordinates|  [ ⚑ ] 58°44′24″N 137°19′07″W﻿ / ﻿58.74°N 137.31861°W﻿ / 58.74; -137.31861
Geography

Mount Wilbur

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.

Parent range| Fairweather Range, Saint Elias Mountains
Topo map| USGS Mount Fairweather C-4 Quadrangle
Climbing
First ascent| 1975 by D. Jones, C. Gerhardt, C. McKibben
Easiest route| snow/ice climb

Mount Wilbur is a high peak of the Fairweather Range, the southernmost part of the Saint Elias Mountains. It lies approximately 14 miles (22 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather and 8 miles (13 km) northwest of Mount Crillon. It is included in Glacier Bay National Park. The peak is the higher of a pair of peaks, Mounts Wilbur and Orville, named after the Wright Brothers.

Though not a particularly high peak in absolute terms, Mount Wilbur does stand quite high above local terrain, due to its proximity to the ocean: the summit is only 7.5 miles from tidewater at the head of Lituya Bay to the southwest.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mount Wilbur". http://www.bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=11699. Retrieved 14 Dec 2013.

## External links

* Mount Wilbur on Topozone
* Mount Wilbur on bivouac.com

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