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Mount Kennedy is a major peak in Yukon’s Saint Elias Mountains, rising about 14,000 feet near the Alaska Panhandle and within Kluane National Park. Named by the Canadian government in 1964 after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, it was chosen as a lasting symbol of friendship between Canada and the United States and as a memorial expressing aspiration and endurance. Then the highest unclimbed peak in North America, it was first ascended in 1965 by an expedition led by Jim Whittaker and joined by Robert F. Kennedy. The mountain remains significant both for its climbing history and its association with the Kennedy family.
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