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Mount Stimson, a 10,147-foot peak in Glacier National Park’s Lewis Range, is the park’s second highest mountain and one of its most remote. In the isolated southwestern part of the park, it rises dramatically above surrounding country, especially on its northwest face, which climbs more than 6,200 feet above Nyack Creek in only 1.8 miles. Named for Henry L. Stimson, who hiked and helped survey the region in the 1890s and supported Glacier’s creation as a national park, it was first recorded as climbed in 1951 by J. Gordon Edwards and Alice Edwards. Its usual approach remains brushy, difficult, and far from roads.
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