Mount Carpe (Alaska)

Mount Carpe
Mount Carpe

Alaska

Elevation 12,552 ft (3,826 m)[1]
Prominence 1,800 ft (550 m)[2]
Location
Location Denali Borough, Alaska, United States
Range Alaska Range
Coordinates 63°09′08″N 150°51′39″W / 63.15222°N 150.86083°WCoordinates: 63°09′08″N 150°51′39″W / 63.15222°N 150.86083°W[3]
Topo map USGS 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 Mount McKinley. 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

References

  1. "Mount Dall". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Mount Carpe". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "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.