Mara Mountain

Mara Mountain stands in northern Greenland's Roosevelt Range in Peary Land and is noted as the closest known mountain to the North Pole, about 446.17 miles from it. Its place in the high Arctic gives it unusual geographic significance among Earth's extreme landscapes. The summit was first reached on July 14, 1998, during the American Top of The World Expedition, when team members climbed it in five hours. A later expedition led by Dennis Schmitt returned in 2003, and on July 6, 2003, the mountain was named for Mara Boland, a member of that six-person party from Santa Ynez.

Greenland