Mount Castner

Mount Castner is a five thousand five hundred thirty-five-foot glaciated summit in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, west of Valdez, rising sharply from tidewater to its summit in about three miles above Unakwik Inlet, College Fjord, and the glaciers at its head. Though moderate in elevation for Alaska, its dramatic local relief and ice-shaped coastal setting give it a striking presence. The name was applied in nineteen ten by Lawrence Martin and later adopted by the United States Geological Survey to honor Joseph Compton Castner, who accompanied Captain Edwin F. Glenn in the area in eighteen ninety-eight. A subarctic climate brings heavy rain, snowfall, severe cold, and conditions that sustain nearby icefields and glaciers.

Tatitlek, Alaska · United States