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Mount Defiant is an 8,348-foot glaciated summit in the Chugach Mountains of southern Alaska, about 32 miles northwest of Valdez, near the head of the Second Branch of Columbia Glacier in Chugach National Forest. Named by the 1957 Chugach Mountains Expedition of the Arctic Institute of North America after the peak resisted every attempt to find a route to its summit, the name was formally adopted in 1965 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Its remote setting is shaped by a subarctic climate, with heavy rain and snowfall from Gulf moisture feeding the mountain’s hanging glaciers and the surrounding Columbia Glacier.
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