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Mount Wickersham is a 7,415-foot peak in Alaska’s northern Chugach Mountains in the Matanuska Valley along the Glenn Highway, near Matanuska Glacier. Named in 1960 for James Wickersham, it honors a figure who served as an attorney, district judge, and Alaska’s territorial delegate to Congress, and who led the first attempt to climb Denali in June 1903 before that expedition was turned back at the cliffs later called Wickersham Wall. The mountain stands in a subarctic climate shaped by Gulf of Alaska storms, bringing heavy rain, snow, severe winter cold, and runoff into tributaries of the Matanuska River.
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