Isolation 14.27 mi (23.0 km) Topo map USGS Talkeetna D-3 Elevation 5,304 m Prominence 2,209 m Mountain range Alaska Range | Parent range Alaska Range Easiest route basic snow/ice First ascent 1934 First ascender Charles Snead Houston | |
Listing North America highest peaks 6thNorth America prominent peaks 64thUS highest major peaks 3rdAlaska highest major peaks 3rd Similar Denali, Mount Hunter, Mount Bona, Mount Saint Elias, Mount Blackburn | ||
Denali up close fly by between mount mckinley and mount foraker
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.
Contents
- Denali up close fly by between mount mckinley and mount foraker
- Map of Mt Foraker Alaska USA
- Mount foraker camp 2
- Naming
- Notable ascents
- References
Map of Mt Foraker, Alaska, USA
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.
Mount foraker camp 2
Naming
Mount Foraker was named in 1899 by Lt. J. S. Herron after Joseph B. Foraker, then a sitting U.S. Senator from Ohio.
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".