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Mount Bertha is a 10,204-foot glaciated summit in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains in southeast Alaska, within Glacier Bay National Park. Known by 1910, its name has disputed origins, either from the steamer SS Bertha or from a woman in Skagway recalled by boundary surveyors. The mountain is shaped by severe subarctic weather from storms off the Gulf of Alaska, which sustain hanging glaciers and link it to the surrounding glacial system draining into Glacier Bay and the Gulf. Its first ascent, on July 30, 1940, included Bradford and Barbara Washburn, and the peak remains a remote part of Glacier Bay’s mountaineering history.
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