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Mount Cook, also called Boundary Peak 182, is a major summit in the Saint Elias Mountains on the Yukon-Alaska border, where the international boundary also separates Kluane National Park from Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve. More notable for its dramatic relief than for absolute height, the mountain rises steeply above the surrounding terrain, with its southwest face dropping about 10,000 feet to the Marvine Glacier in only 4 miles. Its closeness to Disenchantment Bay shows how abruptly these mountains ascend from the Gulf of Alaska coast. First climbed in 1953, Mount Cook remains rarely visited because of its remoteness, size, weather, and relative obscurity.
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