Mount Capps is a mountain in the Alaska Range, in
Denali National Park and Preserve
Denali National Park and Preserve, formerly known as Mount McKinley National Park, is an American national park and preserve located in Interior Alaska, centered on Denali, the highest mountain in North America. The park and contiguous preserve ...
, southwest of
Denali
Denali (; also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level. With a topographic prominence of and a topographic isolation of , Denali is the thi ...
on a ridge between Denali and
Mount Crosson, close to
Kahiltna Dome
Kahiltna Dome is a mountain in the central Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, west of Denali. It is separated from Denali by a deep glacial valley occupied by Kahiltna Glacier, with Kahiltna Pass at its head. It is described as an ice-cover ...
and at the heads of
Peters Glacier and
Kahiltna Glacier
Kahiltna Glacier is the longest glacier of the Alaska Range in the U.S. state of Alaska. It starts on the southwest slope of Denali near Kahiltna Pass (elevation ). Its main channel runs almost due south between Mount Foraker to the west and M ...
. Mount Capps was named in 1952 by after
U.S. Geological Survey geologist Stephen Reid Capps.
See also
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Mountain peaks of Alaska
This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaksThis article defines a significant summit as a summit with at least of topographic prominence, and a major summit as a susexxleast of topographic prominence. All summits i ...
References
Alaska Range
Mountains of Denali National Park and Preserve
Mountains of Alaska
Mountains of Denali Borough, Alaska
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