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Mount Silverthrone is a 13,220-foot glaciated peak in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, about 10.8 miles east of Denali in one of North America’s highest and most heavily glaciated mountain regions. First climbed on April 12, 1945, by Norman Bright and Frank P. Foster, it was named by a U.S. Army Forces cold-weather test party for its stately appearance above the head of Brooks Glacier. Its subarctic climate brings long, intensely cold, snowy winters and short, cool summers, helping sustain glaciers on its slopes. Water from the mountain flows into tributaries of the McKinley River in the Tanana River basin.
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