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Mount Golub is a steep-sided 4,194-foot peak in the Chilkat Range of the Saint Elias Mountains, northwest of Juneau near Lynn Canal within Tongass National Forest. Although modest by Alaska standards, it rises sharply from near sea level, with most of its elevation gained in less than two miles above tidewater. Harvey Golub, Richard Folta, Delbert Carnes, and Keith Hart made the first ascent in 1968. The mountain was officially named in 1972 for Harvey Golub after he died in the 1971 crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 1866, which killed all 111 people aboard in a canyon south of the peak. Its subarctic setting brings heavy rain, snow, cold winters, and cool summers.
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