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Mount Malaspina, a 3,776-metre peak in Yukon’s Saint Elias Mountains within Kluane National Park, is one of Canada’s highest summits and rises in an exceptionally remote, heavily glaciated landscape. Surrounded by major icefields and glaciers, it has especially steep relief above the Agassiz Glacier. Named for the nearby glacier honoring Italian navigator Alessandro Malaspina, whose Spanish expedition visited the region in 1791, the mountain received its official name in 1981. Its summit was first reached on 15 August 2015 by Camilo Rada and Natalia Martinez, then regarded as the highest officially named unclimbed mountain in North America.
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