Mount Alverstone

Mount Alverstone is a prominent peak in the Saint Elias Mountains on the Yukon-Alaska border, where its summit marks a bend in the international boundary. Known also as Boundary Peak 180, it rises on a broad massif with Mount Hubbard and Mount Kennedy. In 1908 it was named for Lord Alverstone, an English judge and boundary commissioner whose deciding vote in the 1903 Alaska boundary dispute went against Canadian claims. The mountain was first climbed in 1951 by Walter Wood's expedition, which also made the first ascent of Mount Hubbard, but the achievement was darkened by the deaths of Wood's wife, daughter, and their pilot in a nearby plane crash.

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