Mount Logan

Mount Logan
Mount Logan from the southeast
Highest point
Elevation	5,959 m (19,551 ft)
Prominence	5,250 m (17,220 ft)[1]
Parent peak	Denali
Isolation	624 km (388 mi)
Listing	Seven Second Summits Country high point Ultra
Coordinates	60°34′02″N 140°24′10″W / 60.56722°N 140.40278°W / 60.56722; -140.40278
Geography
Location	Yukon, Canada
Parent range	Saint Elias Mountains
Topo map	NTS 115B
Climbing
First ascent	1925 by A.H. MacCarthy et al.
Easiest route	Glacier/snow/ice climb

Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada. It is the second-highest mountain in North America, after Denali (Mount McKinley). The mountain was named after Sir William Edmond Logan. He was a Canadian geologist and the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC). Mount Logan is in Kluane National Park and Reserve^[2] in southwestern Yukon. People think that Logan has the largest base circumference of any non-volcanic mountain on Earth. The massif has eleven peaks over 5,000 metres (16,400 ft).^[3][4]

Temperatures are extremely low on and near Mount Logan. On the 5,000 m (16,400 ft) high plateau, air temperature stays around −45 °C (−49 °F) in the winter. It reaches near freezing in summer. Little snow melt leads to a large ice cap, reaching almost 300 m (984 ft) in certain spots.^[4]

1. ↑ "Mount Logan". Bivouac.com. Retrieved January 31, 2019.
2. ↑ "Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada". Parks Canada. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved August 1, 2010.
3. ↑ "Mount Logan". Geological Survey of Canada. Archived from the original on September 21, 2012. Retrieved April 12, 2007.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Mount Logan: Canadian Titan". Virtual Museum of Canada. Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved September 18, 2008.