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Mount Hunter, or Begguya, rises in Denali National Park about eight miles south of Denali and is the Alaska Range’s third-highest major peak. Known in Dena’ina as “Denali’s Child,” it has a broad summit plateau linking its main and south summits, with corniced ridges and exceptionally steep faces that make it far harder than its height suggests. Its English name resulted from an early twentieth-century naming error after prospectors had called it Mount Roosevelt. Since its first ascent in 1954, Mount Hunter has become one of Alaska’s premier tests of alpine climbing, with major routes established from the late 1970s onward.
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