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Phoenix Peak is a 5,187-foot summit in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, within Kenai Fjords National Park near Seward. Its waters flow through tributaries of the Resurrection River, and its climbing history begins with a first ascent on July 23, 1964, by Don Stockard of the Mountaineering Club of Alaska. The club named the peak the next year for the Phoenix, the first ship built in Russian America, constructed in nearby Resurrection Bay in 1794, and the United States Geological Survey adopted the name in 1966. In its stormy subarctic setting, the mountain can have severe cold, while clear days may open views as far as the Harding Icefield.
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Lowell Point, Alaska · United States
