Mount Salisbury
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Mount Salisbury is a peak in the Fairweather Range of Alaska
, 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather
. Its east slopes feed one of the northern branches of the Johns Hopkins Glacier
, which flows into Glacier Bay. On its western side is a large cirque, shared with Mount Fairweather, Mount Quincy Adams
, and Lituya Mountain
, which heads the Fairweather Glacier
; this flows almost to the Pacific
coast at Cape Fairweather
.
Though not exceptional in terms of absolute elevation, Mount Salisbury does possess great vertical relief over local terrain: for example, the southwest side of the mountain drops over 10000 feet (3,048 m) to the Johns Hopkins Glacier in only five miles.
Mount Salisbury is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and the typically bad weather that this range ironically possesses.
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...
, 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather
Mount Fairweather
Mount Fairweather , is one of the world's highest coastal mountains at 4,671 metres It is located east of the Pacific Ocean on the border of Alaska, United States and western British Columbia, Canada...
. Its east slopes feed one of the northern branches of the Johns Hopkins Glacier
Johns Hopkins Glacier
Johns Hopkins Glacier is a long glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the east slopes of Lituya Mountain and Mount Salisbury, and trends east to the head of Johns Hopkins Inlet, southwest of the terminus of Clark Glacier and northwest...
, which flows into Glacier Bay. On its western side is a large cirque, shared with Mount Fairweather, Mount Quincy Adams
Mount Quincy Adams (Fairweather Range)
Mount Quincy Adams is a mountain located on the border between United States and Canada. It is named after John Quincy Adams , the sixth president of the United States....
, and Lituya Mountain
Lituya Mountain
Lituya Mountain is a peak in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, United States, south of Mount Fairweather. Its eastern slopes feed a branch of the Johns Hopkins Glacier, which flows into Glacier Bay...
, which heads the Fairweather Glacier
Fairweather Glacier
Fairweather Glacier is a 19-mile-long glacier in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It begins on the west slope of Mount Salisbury and continues west to its 1961 terminus 0.2 miles east of Cape Fairweather, 100 miles northwest of Hoonah.Fairweather Glacier is...
; this flows almost to the Pacific
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth's oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic in the north to the Southern Ocean in the south, bounded by Asia and Australia in the west, and the Americas in the east.At 165.2 million square kilometres in area, this largest division of the World...
coast at Cape Fairweather
Cape Fairweather
Cape Fairweather is a cape 705 m high, which is ice covered except for rocky exposures along its southeast and east sides, lying midway between Drygalski Glacier and Evans Glacier on the east coast of Graham Land...
.
Though not exceptional in terms of absolute elevation, Mount Salisbury does possess great vertical relief over local terrain: for example, the southwest side of the mountain drops over 10000 feet (3,048 m) to the Johns Hopkins Glacier in only five miles.
Mount Salisbury is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and the typically bad weather that this range ironically possesses.