Mount Logan

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Mount Logan
Elevation:	5,959 metres (19,550 feet)
Location:	Yukon, Canada
Range:	Saint Elias Mountains

<tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85>Prominence: <td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>5,250 m (17,225 ft) (Mentasta Pass) <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85>Coordinates: <td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>60°34′02″ N 140°24′10″ W <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85>Topo map: <td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>NTS 115B <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85>First ascent: <td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>1925 by A.H. MacCarthy et. al. <tr><td style="border-top:1px solid #999966; border-right:1px solid #999966" bgcolor=#e7dcc3 width=85>Easiest route: <td style="border-top:1px solid #999966" width=220>glacier/snow/ice climb </table>

For other uses, see Mount Logan (disambiguation).

Mount Logan is Canada's highest mountain and the second-highest peak in North America, after Denali (Mount McKinley). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan, a Canadian geologist and founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mt. Logan is located within Kluane National Park and Reserve in southwestern Yukon and is the source of the Hubbard and Logan Glaciers. Logan reportedly has the largest base circumference of any mountain on Earth. Due to active tectonic uplifting, Mt. Logan is actually still rising in elevation. Before 1992, the exact height of Mt. Logan was unknown and measurements ranged from 5949 m to 6050 m. In May 1992, a GSC expedition climbed Mt. Logan and fixed the current height of Mt. Logan using GPS. The Mt. Logan massif is considered to contain all the surrounding peaks with less than 500m of prominence, as listed below:

Peak	metres	feet	Latitude (N)	Longitude (W)
Main	5,959	19,550	60°34′02″	140°24′10″
Philippe Peak (West)	5,925	19,439	60°34′45″	140°25′56″
Stuart Peak (East)	5,900	19,357	60°34′32″	140°21′55″
Houston's Peak	5,720	18,766	60°35′06″	140°27′13″
Prospector Peak	5,644	18,517
AINA Peak	5,630	18,471
Russell Peak	5,570	18,274	60°35′35″	140°28′02″
Tudor Peak (North)	5,559	18,238	60°36′59″	140°25′56″
Saxon Peak (Northeast)	5,490	18,012	60°36′59″	140°29′28″
Queen Peak	5,380	17,651
Capet Peak (Northwest)	5,280	17,323
Catenary Peak	4,097	13,442
Teddy Peak	3,956	12,979

Mt. Logan was first climbed on June 23, 1925 by A.H. MacCarthy, H.F. Lambart, A. Carpe, W.W. Foster, N. Read and A. Taylor.

Following the death of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, a close friend of Trudeau's, considered renaming the mountain Mount Trudeau; however, opposition from Yukoners, mountaineers, Trudeau's political critics, and Western Canadians forced the plan to be dropped.

On the last few days of May, 2005, three climbers from the North Shore Search and Rescue team of North Vancouver became stranded on the mountain. A joint operation by Canadian and American forces rescued the three climbers and brought them to Anchorage, Alaska for medical treatment concerning their frostbites.