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Mount Saint Elias in 2008

Mount Saint Elias is a 5,489 metres (18,009 ft) mountain in Canada and the United States. It is also known as Boundary Peak 186. Mount Saint Elias is on the border of Alaska and the Yukon. It is the 2nd highest mountain in Canada and in the United States.

Mount Saint Elias the first part of the North American mainland to be seen by Russian explorers, in 1741.

The first people to reach the top were Luigi Amedeo (Duke of Abruzzi) and his expedition, in 1897.

Images for kids

  • Vittorio Sella--Mount St Elias from Malaspina Glacier--1897 (cropped)

    Mount St Elias from Malaspina Glacier, photograph by Vittorio Sella on the first expedition to climb the mountain, 1897.

  • Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa Tunic

    Tlingit ceremonial tunic given to Maynard Miller and members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club Mt. St. Elias expedition, 1946

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Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Monte San Elías para niños

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