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Mount Leeper, the 9,603-foot highest point of Alaska’s Robinson Mountains within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, rises sharply from a heavily glaciated landscape near the Gulf of Alaska. Surrounded by major glaciers and sustained by a severe tundra climate of snowy winters, cool summers, and heavy precipitation, the mountain stands out for its dramatic relief above Leeper Glacier. Its name was reported locally in 1943 by the Alaska Road Commission, though its namesake is unknown, while the surrounding range had been named in 1891 for Leonidas I. Robinson. The first recorded ascent came on May 15, 1998, by Danny W. Kost and Art Weiner.
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