Mount Deception

Mount Deception is an 11,539-foot glacier-covered peak in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, overlooking Brooks Glacier east-southeast of Denali. Its name originated in a World War II-era air disaster: on September 18, 1944, a U.S. Army Air Forces Douglas C-47 Skytrain flying from Anchorage to Fairbanks went off course for unknown reasons and crashed into the then-unnamed mountain, killing all 19 people aboard. A 44-man rescue expedition reached the site in early November but was hampered by heavy new snowfall. On November 13, 1944, a U.S. Army crash investigation party climbed the mountain, making the first known ascent and naming it Mount Deception.

Chase, Alaska · United States