Mount Koven (Alaska) facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Mount Koven
Mount Koven Location in Alaska
Highest point
Elevation	12,142 ft (3,701 m)
Prominence	1,260 ft (380 m)
Geography
Location	Denali Borough, Alaska, United States
Parent range	Alaska Range
Topo map	USGS Mount McKinley A-2

Mount Koven is a 12,142-foot (3,701 m) mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Eldridge lies to the northeast of Denali on Karstens Ridge, with Mount Carpe to the northeast on the Carpe Ridge extension of Denali's northeast buttress. Mount Koven overlooks the Great Icefall of Muldrow Glacier, with the west fork of Traleika Glacier to the east. It was named for Theodore G. Koven, who, while trying to rescue Allen Carpe (for whom Mount Carpe is named) from a crevasse in Muldrow Glacier, fell into the same crevasse and was killed while on the Rockefeller Cosmic Ray Expedition in May 1932.