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Mount Blackburn, called K’ats’i Tl’aadi in Ahtna, is the highest peak in Alaska’s Wrangell Mountains, the fifth-highest in the United States, and the second-highest volcano in the country. This deeply eroded shield volcano forms a massive ice-clad mountain that feeds the Kennicott, Nabesna, and Kuskulana glacier systems, with dramatic relief that makes it one of the world’s most topographically prominent peaks. Though long thought to have a single summit, its higher western summit was only confirmed in the 1960s, clarifying that the 1958 party made the first ascent of the true summit. Named in 1885, it remains a major landmark and climbing objective in Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park.
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