Fake Peak is a small outcrop on a ridge beside the Ruth Glacier in Denali National Park and Preserve in

Alaska Alaska ( ) is a non-contiguous U.S. state on the northwest extremity of North America. Part of the Western United States region, it is one of the two non-contiguous U.S. states, alongside Hawaii. Alaska is also considered to be the north ...

, US, 19 miles southeast of the summit of

Denali Denali (), federally designated as Mount McKinley, is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. It is the tallest mountain in the world from base to peak on land, measuring . On p. 20 of Helm ...

. It has been shown by Robert M. Bryce that the "summit photograph" produced by

Frederick Cook Frederick Albert Cook (June 10, 1865 – August 5, 1940) was an American explorer, physician and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year l ...

as evidence supporting his claim to have made the first ascent of Denali was taken on Fake Peak.Robert M. Bryce
"Dr. Cook – Mt. McKinley Controversy Closed"
''DIO'', Vol. 7, Nos. 2–3, December 1997, At , this is almost lower than the true summit of Denali.

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Mountains of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska One-thousanders of the United States Climbing areas of Alaska {{MatanuskaSusitnaAK-geo-stub