Kahiltna Queen

Kahiltna Queen is a 12,380-foot glacial horn in Denali National Park, near Denali, Mount Hunter, and the Denali Base Camp in the central Alaska Range. Sharply sculpted by the West Fork Ruth, Southeast Fork Kahiltna, and Tokositna glaciers, it rises dramatically above the surrounding ice and ranks as Alaska’s 54th-highest summit. First climbed in April 1977 and initially called Humble Peak, it was later named for Frances Randall, longtime manager of Denali Base Camp. Randall was renowned in the Kahiltna Glacier climbing community for organizing life-saving rescues and for her own mountaineering achievement as the sixth woman to summit Denali in 1964.

Petersville, Alaska · United States