Mount Foraker

Mount Foraker
Mount Foraker
Highest point
Elevation17,400 ft (5,300 m)
NAVD88
Prominence7250 ft (2210 m)
Parent peakDenali
Isolation14.27 mi (23.0 km)
Listing
Coordinates62°57′39″N 151°23′53″W / 62.96083°N 151.39806°W / 62.96083; -151.39806
Naming
EtymologyJoseph B. Foraker
Geography
Mount Foraker is located in Alaska
Mount Foraker
Mount Foraker
Location within 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.

Name

Mount Foraker base camp
Sunrise over Mount Foraker (17,400 feet)

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

The Koyukon native peoples in the Lake Minchumina area had a broadside view of the mountains and thus gave distinctive names to both Foraker and Denali. According to Hudson Stuck, the Koyukon had two names for Mount Foraker: Sultana meaning "the woman" and Menlale meaning "Denali's wife". The Denaʼina of the Susitna River valley called the mountain Be'u meaning his wife (Denali) and the Lower Tanana Athabascans to the north are reported to have had the same name (Denali) for Mount Foraker as they had for Denali (federally designated as Mount McKinley), and it appears that the names were not applied to individual peaks but instead to the Denali massif. The mountain, along with Denali, was called Bolshaya Gora ("big mountain") in Russian.[citation needed]

Notable ascents

Mount Foraker, on the left, is 3,000' shorter than Denali on the right, but appears taller in this image due to foreshortening. Photo taken from Kashwitna Lake roughly 100 miles (160 km) south of the mountains. Mount Hunter is just to the left of Denali.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Elevations and Distances in the United States". United States Geological Survey. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Foraker". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved March 20, 2010.
  3. 1 2 3 "Mount Foraker". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved October 7, 2004.
  4. ↑ "Mount Foraker". Bivouac.com. Retrieved July 10, 2008.
  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. 20 (50). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 277. ISBN 978-0-930410-73-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  7. ↑ Carter. "American Alpine Club Journal".
  8. ↑ Bleser, Warren; Bertulis, Alex (1969). "Mount Foraker's South Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 16 (43). Philadelphia, PA, USA: American Alpine Club: 289–294.
  9. ↑ Reagan, Peter (1975). "Mount Foraker, Southeast Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 20 (49). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 116.
  10. ↑ Roach, Gerard (1976). "The Archangel - Foraker's North Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 20 (50). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 277–284. ISBN 978-0-930410-73-5.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  11. ↑ Agresti, Henri (1977). "Mount Foraker, South-Southeast Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 21 (51). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 149–152.
  12. ↑ Selters, Andy (2004). Ways to the Sky. Golden, CO, USA: American Alpine Club Press. p. 263. ISBN 0-930410-83-1.
  13. ↑ LeRoy, Erik (1978). "Foraker's Southwest Ridge". American Alpine Journal. 21 (52). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 359–365.
  14. ↑ Vachon, Daniel. "Foraker Pink Panther Route". American Alpine Journal. 27 (59).
  15. ↑ Bebie, Mark (1990). "Foraker's Infinite Spur". American Alpine Journal. 32 (64). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 28–35. ISBN 0-930410-43-2.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  16. ↑ "False Dawn—Foraker". American Alpine Club. Retrieved March 14, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  17. ↑ Haley, Colin. "Infinite Spur Laps". Retrieved May 8, 2017.

Notes

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