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Mount Hawkins is a remote, heavily glaciated summit in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, notable for its steep rise of about 3,000 feet above nearby glaciers in just one mile. In a tundra climate shaped by moisture from the Gulf of Alaska, it experiences heavy rain and snow, severe winter cold, and harsh wind chills. Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey named it in 1930 for Erastus Corning Hawkins, chief engineer of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway, and the name was officially adopted that year. Its first recorded ascent did not occur until April 13, 2000.
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McCarthy, Alaska · United States
