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Hess Mountain, or Mount Hess, is a glaciated summit on the crest of the Alaska Range in central Alaska and the seventh-highest peak in the Hayes Range at 11,940 feet. In a remote setting west of Mount Hayes and south of Fairbanks, it rises in a subarctic climate of long, severe winters that help sustain the surrounding Gillam and West Fork Glaciers. Its waters feed tributaries of both the Susitna and Tanana River basins. Reported by the United States Geological Survey in 1912, the mountain later became a remote climbing objective, with the first recorded ascent in 1951 and the North Ridge first climbed in 1976.
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Fort Greely, Alaska · United States
