Harper Glacier

Harper Glacier is a high mountain glacier on Denali in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Beginning above 19,000 feet between Denali’s North and South Peaks, it drops northeast through the upper mountain, flowing between surrounding ridges, through the Great Icefall and Lower Icefall, and then becoming Muldrow Glacier. Its position makes it part of one of Denali’s most dramatic and elevated glacier systems. In 1913, Hudson Stuck named it for Walter Harper, a Koyukon mountaineer who became the first person to reach Denali’s summit, linking the glacier to a major climbing milestone on the mountain.

Petersville, Alaska · United States