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2 unusual facts about Mount Saint Elias


Mount Saint Elias

The second ascent was not until 1946, when a group from the Harvard Mountaineering Club including noted mountain historian Dee Molenaar climbed the Southwest Ridge route.

(This expedition was somewhat unusual for the era in including a female member.) William Putnam was a member of the expedition but did not make the summit.



see also

Tlingit alphabet

The other most widespread transcriptions were the one used extensively by John Swanton in his Tlingit Myths and Texts and The Tlingit Language, and the one used by Frederica de Laguna in her Story of a Tlingit Village and Under Mount Saint Elias.