Haydon Peak

Haydon Peak is an 11,924-foot mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains of southeastern Alaska, within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Surrounded by major icefields between Libbey Glacier and Tyndall Glacier, it rises sharply above the head of Libbey Glacier, giving it a notably steep profile in a heavily glaciated landscape near the Gulf of Alaska. Harold Ward Topham named it in 1888 during his Mount Saint Elias expedition, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Haydon; the present spelling was officially adopted in 1917. Its tundra climate, fed by moist Gulf weather forced up the mountains, brings heavy rain, snowfall, severe winters, and sustains the glaciers around it.

Yakutat, Alaska · United States