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Mount Witherspoon is a remote, glaciated peak in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, rising 12,012 feet within Chugach National Forest near the heads of Yale and Columbia Glaciers. The fifth-highest mountain in the Chugach range and second-highest in the Dora Keen Range, it stands in a severe subarctic environment shaped by heavy Gulf of Alaska moisture, long snowy winters, and extreme cold. Officially named in 1928 for U.S. Geological Survey topographer David C. Witherspoon, who mapped much of Alaska, the mountain was first recorded as climbed on June 25, 1957, underscoring both its remoteness and difficulty.
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