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Mount Grosvenor is a summit in Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve, rising more than 8,400 feet on the west side of Ruth Gorge. Though not especially high for the Alaska Range, it is distinguished by a dramatic east face of over 4,000 feet of sheer granite above the gorge, placing it in some of the range’s starkest big-wall terrain. Its unofficial name was given by Frederick Cook for Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, a leader of the National Geographic Society and an early force in photojournalism. The first recorded ascent came in 1979, and the mountain’s subarctic climate brings severe cold, with May through June usually the best period for climbing or viewing.
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Petersville, Alaska · United States
