Hey Folks,
Here’s another photo of Mt. St. Elias, taken from the same flight as my previous 2 posts. I’ll post a couple more on this series of aerial photos of Wrangell St. Elias National Park over the next few days. Mt. St. Elias stands 18,008 feet (5,489 metres), and rises almost from the coastal shoreline of Taan Fjord in Icy Bay.
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Hey Folks,
This is a photo of Mt. Logan and the University Range, with Mt. St. Elias in the background. Though Mt. Logan sits in the Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwestern Yukon Territory, Canada, this aerial photo was taken from Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, Alaska.
Mt. Logan stands close to 20 000′ high, nearly as high as Denali, or Mt. McKinley, in Alaska, and with it’s awesome bulk, it’s every bit as grand. Mt. Logan is reputed to be one of the the largest mountains in the world in terms of sheer volume – the circumference of the base of Mt. Logan is greater than even Mt. Everest.
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