Pinnacle Peak

Pinnacle Peak is a 3,714-meter mountain in Yukon’s Saint Elias Mountains within Kluane National Park, standing at the head of the South Arm of the Kaskawulsh Glacier. One of Canada’s highest officially named mountains, it is marked by steep relief, rising about 1,500 meters above the Dusty Glacier in only 3.5 kilometers. Surrounded by the Kaskawulsh, Dusty, and Lowell glaciers, it lies in a subarctic climate of severe cold, heavy icefields, and deep isolation. Its climbing history began in 1965 with the first ascent of the west ridge, followed by first ascents of the east and north ridges in 1974 and a third ascent, the first by Canadian mountaineers, in 1990.

Yukon · Canada