Mount Ascension

Mount Ascension is a 5,710-foot summit in the Kenai Mountains on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, near Resurrection Bay and north of Seward. Its name was chosen as a variation on the area’s Resurrection-themed place names after “Resurrection” had already been widely used locally. Proposed by the Mountaineering Club of Alaska in 1968 and officially adopted in 1969, the peak was first recorded as climbed on October 6, 1968, by John Vincent Hoeman and Dr. Grace (Jansen) Hoeman. Reached by the Lost Lake Trail, its summit requires mountaineering skill and rewards climbers with expansive views, including the Harding Icefield, above a subarctic landscape of forested lower slopes.

Bear Creek, Alaska · United States