Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — The Alaskan Alps. [ARTICLE]

The Alaskan Alps.

Though by no means the highest mountain in the world by actual measurement, yet Mt. St. Elias probably appears as large as, if not larger than, any other, for it is plainly visible from the sea throughout its entire height of eighteen or nineteen thousand feet, though situated from forty to fifty miles inland. The Hwiss mountains, which are all under sixteen thousand feet, are generally seen from elevations varying from four to eight thousand feet, while in the Himalayas the plane of observation is considerably higher. It is certainly true that, with the possible exception of Mt. Wrangel, about which little is known, Mt. St. Elias presents the greatests snow climb of all the mountains in the world, on account of the low point to which the line of perpetual snow descends in these northerly region. Beside St. Elias such mountains as Cook and Vancouver sank into insignificance. William Williams, in Scribner's.