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Mount Shand is a glaciated 12,660-foot summit in the eastern Alaska Range at the head of the Trident Glacier. The third-highest peak in the Hayes Range, it stands in a remote interior Alaska landscape near Mount Hayes, Mount Moffit, and McGinnis Peak. Known for its three broad East, West, and South faces and for being rarely climbed, it rises in a severe subarctic climate that sustains the Trident and Black Rapids Glaciers, with runoff feeding tributaries of the Tanana River. The mountain honors mountaineer William Shand Jr., whose name was transferred to this summit and officially adopted in 1962 after earlier naming plans changed.
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Fort Greely, Alaska · United States
