Mount Lucania

The Duke of the Abruzzi named the peak he could see in the distance Mount Lucania, after his expedition ship, the RMS Lucania, while he stood on Mount Saint Elias. It's a true beast of a mountain, occupying third place among Canada's highest summits. A succession of overlapping mountain ridges make up the northern summit of the St. Elias range. Lucania, like Mt. Logan and Mt. St. Elias, lies near to the Pacific coast and is rarely visited; Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates completed the first ascent on Lucania in 1937. A steep snow saddle connects Lucania to its north-eastern neighbor Mount Steele.

This magnificent peak has been climbed three times, the most recent by an all-female team just this year, 84 years after the first ascent. Robert Hicks Bates and Bradford Washburn were the first to summit Mount Lucania. They had to hike approximately 150 miles to the nearest town to go home after their journey up and down the mountain.

Elevation: 17,260 feet (5,260 m)
Location: Yukon
Range: Saint Elias Mountains