Mount Nagishlamina

Mount Nagishlamina is an 11,068-foot glaciated peak in Alaska’s Tordrillo Mountains, part of the Alaska Range, and the fifth-highest mountain in that group. Its name, drawn from the Denaʼina language through the nearby Nagishlamina River, had been used by local climbers since the 1970s before official adoption in 1999. Dave Johnston first climbed the mountain in 1989, when it was likely the highest unclimbed peak in the United States. The mountain’s tundra climate brings long, intensely cold, snowy winters, cool summers, and heavy snowfall that sustains the Harpoon and Capps Glaciers, with runoff eventually reaching Cook Inlet.

Tyonek, Alaska · United States