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Mount La Perouse is a 10,728-foot glaciated peak in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains in southeastern Alaska, within Glacier Bay National Park near the Gulf of Alaska. Though not one of the range’s highest summits, it rises dramatically from tidewater in less than nine miles and is surrounded by hanging glaciers and the Brady, Finger, and La Perouse glaciers. Named in 1874 by William Healey Dall for French navigator Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, it is also known for a massive 2014 landslide. Its first recorded ascent was made on August 15, 1952, by a U.S. Geological Survey party.
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