Mount Foresta

Mount Foresta is a multi-peak massif in the Saint Elias Mountains of southeastern Alaska within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, rising more than 11,000 feet above the Hubbard Glacier and standing unusually close to tidewater at Disenchantment Bay. Named for Foresta Hodgson Wood, who managed logistics for Project Snow Cornice, the mountain carries a memorial link to Arctic research: Wood and her daughter Valerie F. Wood died in a 1951 airplane crash near the peak, and nearby Valerie Glacier preserves the daughter’s name. Officially adopted in 1960, the name ties this severe subarctic landscape to both scientific exploration and personal loss.

Yakutat, Alaska · United States