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Mount Hayes, the highest mountain in the eastern Alaska Range, is notable less for exceeding fourteen thousand feet than for its immense rise above the surrounding landscape, including an eight-thousand-foot Northeast Face in about two miles that gives it exceptional topographic prominence. Named in 1898 by W. J. Peters and A. H. Brooks of the U.S. Geological Survey for geologist Charles Willard Hayes, it became a landmark in Alaskan mountaineering after Bradford and Barbara Washburn and their party made the first ascent by the North Ridge in 1941. Though the East Ridge is now the standard route, the mountain remains seldom climbed because of its remoteness, difficult access, severe subarctic climate, and glacier-covered slopes.
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