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Mount Hunter

Mount Hunter

Quick Facts
Region:
  • Matanuska-Susitna
Nearest City:
Elevation:
  • 14573 ft (4441.85 m)
About

near head of Tokositna Glacier, 10 mi. S of Denali Pass, in Denali National Park; Alaska Range

History of Mount Hunter

In 1903, Robert Dunn, reporter of the "New York Commercial Advertiser," with F. A. Cook, named a high mountain "Mount Hunter," in honor of his aunt Anna Falconnet Hunter, 1885-1941, who financed his trip. R.W. Porter, USGS, in 1906, mistakenly applied the name to this peak, about 9 miles northwest of the one named by Dunn. Cook, in 1905, may have named this mountain "Mount Disston" for his friend Henry Disston. See Mount Huntington. Some members of Cook's 1906 party referred to this mountain as "Little McKinley" and the prospectors in the Yentna district to the south called it "Mount Roosevelt" for Theodore Roosevelt. The first ascent of Mount Hunter was July 5, 1954, by Fred Beckey, Heinrich Harrer, and Henry Meybohm (Farquhar, 1959, p. 222, 223).

Mount Hunter Gallery

Pictures of, from, or near Mount Hunter.