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Mount Bona, in eastern Alaska’s Saint Elias Mountains, is one of the highest mountains in the United States and a rare combination of giant alpine peak and ice-covered stratovolcano. Standing beside Mount Churchill, it forms a broad, heavily glaciated massif and supplies ice to the Klutlan Glacier flowing into Canada’s Yukon Territory as well as to the Russell Glacier system. Its precise elevation remains uncertain, though its exceptional height is unquestioned. Bona is the highest volcano in the United States and the fourth-highest in North America. Named in 1897 by Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, it was first recorded as climbed in 1930.
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