Mount Carpe
Highest point
Elevation12,550 ft (3,825 m)[1]
Prominence1,800 ft (549 m)[2]
Parent peakDenali[3]
Coordinates63°09′07″N 150°51′37″W / 63.15194°N 150.86028°W / 63.15194; -150.86028[4]
Geography
Mount Carpe is located in Alaska
Mount Carpe
Mount Carpe
Alaska
LocationDenali Borough
Alaska, United States
Parent rangeAlaska Range
Topo mapUSGS Mount McKinley A-2

Mount Carpe is a 12,550-foot (3,825 m) mountain summit in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve, on a northeast buttress of Denali. The Carpe Ridge includes Mount Tatum. Mount Carpe was named in 1943 by the U.S. Army Test Expedition after Allen Carpé, 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][4][5]

See also

Tatum/Carpe with Denali behind

References

  1. "Mount Carpe". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  2. 1 2 "Mount Carpe". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
  3. "Carpe, Mount - 12,550' Alaska". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
  4. 1 2 "Mount Carpe". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
  5. "Mount Koven". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
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