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Mount Doonerak is a 7,457-foot summit in northern Alaska’s Endicott Mountains, within Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. One of the range’s and the park’s highest peaks, it is famed for dramatic topographic relief, rising about 5,457 feet above the North Fork Koyukuk River in just two miles and draining north into that river. Its steep, dark profile made it a notable climbing objective. Explorer Bob Marshall named it after encountering it in 1929, later choosing a name from an Iñupiat word meaning “a spirit” or “a devil.” The official name was adopted in 1932, and the first recorded ascent came in 1952.
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Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska · United States