Mount Denison

Mount Denison is a remote stratovolcano in the heavily glaciated Katmai National Park on the Alaska Peninsula. At the end of a volcanic chain, it is regarded as one of the peninsula’s highest peaks and may be the tallest mountain in the park, though some accounts give that distinction to Mount Griggs. Harvard geologist Kirtley Fletcher Mather identified it in 1923 and named it for Denison University, a link reflected in the first two ascent teams and a 1977 attempted climb, whose members were tied to the university. No historical eruption is known, but it likely was active during the Holocene. Its isolation has left it a distant, little-visited summit.

Karluk, Alaska · United States