Double Peak

Double Peak is a prominent six thousand eight hundred eighteen-foot mountain in Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska's Chigmit Mountains. The highest non-volcanic summit in that range and the third-highest overall, it rises dramatically from near tidewater at Cook Inlet within about twenty miles, giving it notable local relief. Water from the mountain drains through the Big River system toward Cook Inlet. Its name, published in nineteen twelve, came from nearby Double Glacier. Although once treated as a volcano in nineteen seventy-three, later mapping suggested it is more likely made of Jurassic-age plutonic rocks. The first recorded ascent occurred on May nineteenth, nineteen seventy-three.

Salamatof, Alaska · United States