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Mount Watson is a 12,497-foot glaciated summit in Alaska’s Fairweather Range, within Glacier Bay National Park near the Canada–United States border. The fifth-highest mountain in the range, it was officially named in 1924 for David Thompson Watson, U.S. counsel to the 1903 Alaska Boundary Tribunal that helped settle the Alaska-Canada border dispute. Its severe subarctic climate, with extreme cold, snow, and wind, sustains hanging glaciers and feeds the larger Grand Plateau Glacier and waters flowing toward the Gulf of Alaska. Though prominent, the remote peak was first climbed only on June 18, 1974, with a North Face route added in 1999.
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