Mount Emmerich

Mount Emmerich is a mountain summit in Alaska.

Description Mount Emmerich is located west-southwest of Haines in the Chilkat Range which is a subrange of the Saint Elias Mountains. Precipitation runoff and glacial meltwater from the mountain's slopes drains to the Chilkat River via the Takhin and Kicking Horse rivers. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above the Garrison Glacier in 1.5 mile (2.4 km). The first ascent of the summit was made on August 14, 1976, by Fred Beckey, Craig Zaspell, and Jack Tackle via the southwest ridge.Fred Beckey, North America, United States, Alaska, Mount Emmerich, Chilkat Mountains, Alaska Coast Mountains, 1977, americanalpineclub.org, Retrieved 2023-12-23. The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The mountain was named by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1897, to remember one of their own, Lieutenant Charles F. Emmerich (1849–1894), who served on the schooner Hassler in Alaska in 1893.Annual Report of the Director, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1895, p. 125. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, this landform's local name is Cathedral Peak, "because of the mountain's prominence and cathedral-like appearance."Donald J. Orth, Dictionary of Alaska Place Names, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1967, page 313.

Climate According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mount Emmerich has a tundra climate with cold, snowy winters, and cool summers. Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall. Winter temperatures can drop to 0 °F with wind chill factors below −10 °F. This climate supports small unnamed glaciers on the peak's slopes as well as the Bertha and Garrison glaciers in the surrounding valleys.

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