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The Rooster Comb is a 10,180-foot multi-peak mountain in Alaska Range within Denali National Park and Preserve. Rising 4,000 feet above the Ruth Glacier on the southwest edge of the Don Sheldon Amphitheater, it lies southeast of Denali near Mount Huntington and Mount Kudlich. Its name reflects its jagged profile, a resemblance noted during the 1910 Mazama Expedition when Claude Ewing Rusk compared its corniced spires to a great rooster comb; Bradford Washburn formally submitted the name in 1957. The mountain stands in a subarctic climate with intensely cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and the best climbing or viewing conditions generally in May and June.
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