Mount Lucania

Mount Lucania, a heavily glaciated 5,240-metre peak in Yukon, is Canada’s third-highest mountain and a major summit of the Saint Elias Mountains. Named in 1897 by the Duke of Abruzzi after the RMS Lucania, it was first climbed in 1937 by Bradford Washburn and Robert Hicks Bates, whose expedition used an airplane to reach the Walsh Glacier before continuing on foot in a pioneering feat of aerial access and endurance. Their abandoned cache was rediscovered in 2022 after moving ice carried it far from its original site. Later ascents included Harmony Ridge’s first climb in 1977 and the first all-woman summit team in 2021.

Yukon · Canada