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University Peak is a steep, high summit in Alaska’s Saint Elias Mountains, a southern outlier of the Mount Bona massif and one of the state’s highest peaks. Named by Terris Moore during the first ascent of Mount Bona in honor of the University of Alaska, it is formed mainly from an eroded granodioritic intrusion about 8.4 million years old. Its reputation rests on climbing: the first ascent in 1955, led by Keith Hart with a University of Alaska party, followed the North Ridge from the Hawkins Glacier, and that route remains the standard easier line. In 1997, Carlos Buhler and Charlie Sassara completed the much harder East Face route, Third Semester.
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McCarthy, Alaska · United States
