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Mt. Cook (AK, YT)

Mount Cook, also Boundary Peak 182, is a 13,760 ft (4,194 m) summit of the Saint Elias Mountains on the Alaska-Yukon border. Named for Captain James Cook in 1874 by W. H. Dall; first climbed in 1953 by the Seattle Mt. Logan-Cook Expedition.

Mt. Cooper

Mt. Cooper (Mount Cooper) names several North American mountains: a 3,094 m Selkirk summit in British Columbia first climbed in 1962, a 6,753 ft Glacier Bay peak named for ecologist William Cooper, plus minor peaks in BC and Washington.

Mt. Crillon

Mount Crillon, a 12,728 ft (3,879 m) peak in Alaska's Fairweather Range within Glacier Bay National Park, named by La Perouse in 1786; first climbed in 1934 by Bradford Washburn's Harvard-Dartmouth expedition, with pioneering glacier seismic soundings.

Mt. Dawson

Mount Dawson, a 3,377 m peak in the Selkirk Mountains of Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada; first ascended August 13, 1899 by Fay and Parker with Swiss guides Feuz and Häsler; highest summit of the Glacier Park Selkirks.

Mt. Drum

Mount Drum is a 12,011-foot dormant stratovolcano at the western end of the Wrangell Mountains in Alaska, east of Glennallen in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.

Mt. Edith Cavell

Mount Edith Cavell, a 3,361-m peak in Jasper National Park, Alberta, highest of the Cavell Group, named for a British nurse executed in WWI; home of Angel Glacier; Cavell Road closed for 2026 after the 2024 wildfire.

Mt. Ellen

Mount Ellen (Mt. Ellen), 11,522 ft, is the highest summit of Utah's Henry Mountains and Garfield County, a laccolithic dome with 5,842 ft of prominence, ranked 29th of 57 lower-48 ultra-prominent peaks, climbed via Bull Creek Pass.

Mt. Farnham

Mount Farnham, formerly Bolivar Mountain, is the highest peak of the Purcell Mountains in southeastern British Columbia (3,493 m / 11,459 ft; older sources 11,342 ft). First ascent 1914 by the McCarthys and Conrad Kain; named for Paulding Farnham.

Mt. Goodsir, South Tower

Mt. Goodsir, South Tower (Goodsir Towers, South Tower), 3,562 m, is the true summit of Mount Goodsir in the Ottertail Range, Yoho National Park, British Columbia; first climbed 1903 by Fay and Parker, notorious for loose rock.

Mt. Graham

Mount Graham (Dził Nchaa Si'an) is the 10,720-foot summit of Arizona's Pinaleño Mountains, a sky island with endemic red squirrels, ancient Douglas firs, and the controversial Mount Graham International Observatory.

Mt. Harrison

Mount Harrison, a 3,353 m peak in the East Kootenays of the Canadian Rockies, British Columbia; named 1964 for Pilot Officer Francis A. Harrison DFC, last of the range's 11,000ers to be climbed, first ascended August 1964. Distinct from Mount Rainier's proposed name and Idaho's Mount Harrison.

Mt. Hayes

Mount Hayes, 13,832 ft (4,216 m), is the highest nonvolcanic peak of the Hayes Range in the eastern Alaska Range, Alaska, first climbed August 1, 1941 by the Washburn party via the North Ridge; distinct from Hayes Volcano.

Mt. Hubbard (AK, YT)

Mount Hubbard is a 14,950-ft peak on the Alaska–Yukon border in the St. Elias Mountains, first ascended in 1951 by Walter Wood's Arctic Institute expedition; a December 6, 2025 M7.0 earthquake beneath Hubbard Glacier triggered hundreds of landslides and avalanches nearby.

Mt. Igikpak

Mount Igikpak is a peak in the Schwatka Mountains of the western Brooks Range, Alaska, first ascended in 1968 by a party led by David Roberts.

Mt. Jancowski

Mount Jancowski (Mount Jankowski) is a Coast Mountains peak in Kitimat–Stikine, British Columbia, about 2,729 m with 2,069 m prominence; first ascended solo by George Whitmore in 1967, named for entrepreneur Richard Jancowski.

Mt. Jefferson (northern america, USlists_USP5000:1.31)

Mount Jefferson (New Hampshire) is a 5,714.4 ft Presidential Range summit in the White Mountains, third highest in New England, named for Thomas Jefferson in 1820, with 756 ft prominence and the Caps Ridge Trail approach.

Mt. Kimball

Mount Kimball is a ~10,300 ft (3,140 m) glaciated peak, the highest summit of the Delta Mountains subrange of the Alaska Range, Alaska, first climbed June 13, 1969 via the west ridge after eight failed attempts; distinct from Mount Kimballs in Colorado, Arizona, and British Columbia.

Mt. Lucania

Mount Lucania, a 5,226 m (17,150 ft) peak in the Saint Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada; third-highest in Canada, first climbed 1937 by Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates after a famous glacier escape.

Mt. Marcus Baker

Mount Marcus Baker, formerly mislabeled Mt. St. Agnes, is Alaska's highest Chugach Mountains peak at 13,176 ft, with 10,726 ft prominence, 126-mile isolation, first climbed by Bradford Washburn in 1938.

Mt. Martha Black

Mount Martha Black, 2,512 m, is the highest peak of the Auriol Range in the Saint Elias Mountains, Kluane National Park, Yukon, Canada. Named for Martha Black, Canada's second female MP; name adopted 1980; route via Auriol Trail; 2023 landslide hazard.

Mt. Monashee

Mount Monashee (Monashee Mountain) is a 3,274 m peak in British Columbia, the highest point of the Monashee Mountains, a Gaelic-named (monadh-sith, "mountain of peace") division of the Columbia Mountains named c. 1881 by Donald McIntyre.

Mt. Natazhat

Mount Natahat is a 435-foot peak in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is the region's highest point and a popular hiking destination in Franconia Notch.

Mt. Nebo

Mount Nebo (Utah), highest peak of the Wasatch Range at 11,928 ft north summit (south summit 11,877 ft), an ultra-prominent peak with 5,508 ft prominence, high point of Utah County, distinct from the biblical Mount Nebo in Jordan.

Mt. Priestley

Mount Priestley (Mt. Priestley) is a 2,366 m ultra-prominent peak in the Kitimat Ranges, Coast Mountains, British Columbia, highest point of Nisga'a Memorial Lava Bed Provincial Park, first known ascent 2017; distinct from Antarctic and New Zealand namesakes.

Mt. Queen Bess

Mount Queen Bess is a 3,298-m peak at the north end of the Homathko Icefield in British Columbia's Coast Mountains, named for Elizabeth I, first climbed in 1942 by the Mundays and Henry Hall.

Mt. Ratz

Mount Ratz is a 3,090 m peak in the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, the highest summit of the Stikine Icecap, named 1924 for surveyor William F. Ratz and first climbed by Fred Beckey and Daniel Davis in 1964.

Mt. Sanford

Mount Sanford is a 16,237 ft (4,949 m) andesitic shield volcano, Alaska's sixth highest peak, in the Wrangell Mountains of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park. Named by Lt. Henry T. Allen in 1885; first ascent 1938 by Moore and Washburn; no historical eruptions.

Mt. Saugstad

Mount Saugstad, a 2,908 m peak in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains, British Columbia, south of Hagensborg; named for Rev. Christian Saugstad of the 1894 Norwegian Bella Coola colony; first climbed in 1951 by Dudra and Schoening.

Mt. Sir Alexander

Mount Sir Alexander, formerly Mount Kitchi and Mount Alexander Mackenzie, is a 3,270 m peak in Kakwa Provincial Park, British Columbia, at the northern limit of the continuously alpine Canadian Rockies; first climbed in 1929 by Buck, Gilmour, and Waffl.

Mt. Sir Sandford

Mount Sir Sandford, highest peak of the Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia (3,519–3,522 m), first climbed in 1912 by Palmer, Holway, Aemmer, and Feuz; remote ultra-prominent summit with west ridge classic route and Great Cairn Hut.