Mount Tom White

Mount Tom White is a remote, glaciated 11,191-foot summit in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, among the range’s highest peaks and notable for its dramatic prominence above the surrounding terrain. Set within Chugach National Forest and the Copper River drainage basin, it rises amid a landscape of icefields and major glaciers sustained by a subarctic climate of long, cold winters, cool summers, and heavy precipitation from the Gulf of Alaska. The mountain honors Thomas George White, an early southeastern Alaska pioneer associated with the St. Elias expeditions, mining, the Katalla oil seep, and Alaska’s first oil well. The peak was first climbed in 1973.

McCarthy, Alaska · United States