Mount Foresta is an multi-peak
massif located in
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park, in the
Saint Elias Mountains of
Alaska in the United States. Rising high above the lower western margin of the
Hubbard Glacier, the summit of Mount Foresta is just over from tidewater at
Disenchantment Bay
Disenchantment Bay extends southwest for from the mouth of Russell Fiord to Point Latouche, at the head of Yakutat Bay in Alaska.
Named "Puerto del Desengano", Spanish for "bay of disenchantment", by Alessandro Malaspina in 1792, upon finding ...
, northwest of
Mount Seattle, southeast of
Mount Vancouver
Mount Vancouver is the 15th highest mountain in North America. Its southern side lies in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve at the top of the Alaska panhandle, while its northern side is in Kluane National Park and Reserve in the southweste ...
, and north of
Yakutat.
History
The mountain was named for Foresta Hodgson Wood (1904–1951), who was responsible for the logistics planning of the ''Project Snow Cornice'' of the
Arctic Institute of North America.
Foresta, with her daughter Valerie F. Wood (1933–1951), were killed in an airplane crash in the vicinity of this mountain on July 27, 1951, during this scientific expedition. The Valerie Glacier
flows along the southwest aspect of Mount Foresta. The toponyms were proposed in 1957 by the Arctic Institute of North America and officially adopted in 1960 by the
U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
The
first ascent of Mount Foresta was made on July 24, 1979, by
Fred Beckey, Rick Nolting, John Rupley, and Craig Tillery.
''Mount Foresta'', American Alpine Journal, 1980
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Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Foresta is located in a subarctic climate
The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...
zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool summers.
Gallery
File:Mount Foresta from Disenchantment Bay.jpg, Mount Foresta seen from Disenchantment Bay with Hubbard Glacier
File:Mt. Foresta, Hubbard Glacier, Mt. Seattle.jpg, Mt. Foresta (left), Hubbard Glacier, Mt. Seattle (right)
File:Mt Foresta.jpg, South aspect
See also
* List of mountain peaks of North America
** List of mountain peaks of the United States
*** List of mountain peaks of Alaska
References
External links
* Mount Foresta photo
Flickr
* Account of the first ascent
American Alpine Journal
* Weather forecast
Mount Foresta
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North American 3000 m summits
Mountains of Alaska
Saint Elias Mountains
Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve