Mount Vulcan, Kluane Ranges, St. Elias Mountains. M. E. Alford and I made what we presume to be the first ascent of Mount Vulcan (c. 9300 feet; longitude 138°29', latitude 60° 51'), highest peak of the Kluane Ranges, comprised of the abrupt scarp which forms the western side of the Shakwak Valley and Kluane Lake. The mountain rises a few miles south of the point where the Alaska Highway crosses Slim’s River at the south end of Kluane Lake. After leaving the Land Rover at 2700 feet near Vulcan Creek alluvial fan at 10 A.M. on August 3, we set up camp at 6000 feet on the moraine beside the glacier in a cirque three miles northeast of the summit that evening. The next morning we climbed along the ice-covered northwest ridge, reached the summit of an 8600-foot, snow-covered peak a half mile north of Vulcan at 4 p.m., and reached the true summit at 6:40.

George Denton, Yale University