Mount Bona – Alaska

Mount Bona is the fifth-highest independent peak in the United States and one of the major summits of the Saint Elias Mountains in eastern Alaska. It is either North America's tenth or eleventh tallest summit. Mount Bona and Mount Churchill, its neighbor, are both enormous ice-covered stratovolcanoes. Only the three highest Mexican volcanoes, Pico de Orizaba, Popocatépetl, and Iztacchuatl, outrank Bona as the highest volcano in the United States and the fourth highest in North America. On top of a high platform of sedimentary rocks, it has a small stratovolcano at its summit.

The massif of the mountain is almost fully covered with icefields and glaciers, and it is the primary source of ice for the Klutlan Glacier, which flows east for over 40 miles (64 kilometers) into Canada's Yukon Territory. The mountain also supplies a significant amount of ice to the Russell Glacier system, which flows north.

In 1897, Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, saw Mount Bona while making the first ascent of Mount Saint Elias, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) to the southeast, and named it. He named it after his racing yacht, the Bona. Allen Carpé, Terris Moore, and Andrew Taylor were the first to climb the summit in 1930, starting from the Russell Glacier on the west side of the peak. The East Ridge is the current conventional route; a climb of nearby Mount Churchill is also a relatively easy option through this route.

Location: Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S.
Elevation: 16,550 ft (5,040 m)