Mount Carpe (Alaska)

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Mount Carpe
View of Alska Range from the Eielson Visitor Center, Denali Nation Park.jpg
Highest point
Elevation12,552 ft (3,826 m)[1]
Prominence1,800 ft (550 m)[2]
Coordinates63°09′08″N 150°51′39″W / 63.15222°N 150.86083°W / 63.15222; -150.86083Coordinates: 63°09′08″N 150°51′39″W / 63.15222°N 150.86083°W / 63.15222; -150.86083[3]
Geography
Mount Carpe is located in Alaska
Mount Carpe
Mount Carpe
Alaska
LocationDenali Borough, Alaska, United States
Parent rangeAlaska Range
Topo mapUSGS Mount McKinley A-2

Mount Carpe is a 12,552-foot (3,826 m) mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, on a northeast buttress of Denali. The Carpe Ridge includes Mount Tatum. Mount Carpe was named in 1943 by the U.S. Army Test Expedition after Allen Carpe, who was killed along with Theodore G. Koven (for whom Mount Koven is named), while on the Rockefeller Cosmic Ray Expedition in May 1932 when they fell into a crevasse on Muldrow Glacier.[2][3][4]

See also[]

  • Mountain peaks of Alaska
Carpe with Denali behind

References[]

  1. ^ "Mount Dall". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Carpe". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  3. ^ a b "Mount Koven". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  4. ^ "Mount Carpe". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2013-04-11.


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