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Pyramid Peak is an 8,875-foot mountain on the western edge of Alaska’s Saint Elias Mountains within Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, about 22 miles southeast of McCarthy. Near Williams Peak and Joshua Green Peak, it sheds runoff into tributaries of the Nizina River within the broader Copper River drainage. Its descriptive local name was reported by the United States Geological Survey in 1908. The peak stands in a subarctic climate shaped by moist weather from the Gulf of Alaska, bringing long snowy winters, cool summers, heavy precipitation, severe cold, and small unnamed glaciers on its north and south slopes.
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McCarthy, Alaska · United States
