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Mount Einstein is an 11,552-foot glaciated peak in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, about 32 miles northwest of Valdez, rising above Yale Glacier within Chugach National Forest. The sixth-highest summit in the range, it was named in 1955 by the Chugach Mountains Expedition and formally adopted by the United States Geological Survey in honor of Albert Einstein after his death that year. Its severe subarctic climate, fed by moist systems from the Gulf of Alaska, brings heavy rain, snow, extreme cold, and harsh wind chill that help sustain nearby icefields and glaciers. The first recorded ascent reached the summit on June 17, 1957.
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Valdez, Alaska · United States
