{{Short description|Mountain on the border of Canada and Alaska}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Alverstone | image = Mount Alverstone.jpg | elevation_system = NAVD88 | elevation = 4420 m (14,500 ft) | elevation_ref = <ref name=PB>{{cite web|url=http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=543|title=Mount Alverstone, Alaska-Yukon|publisher=Peakbagger.com|access-date=December 30, 2015 }}</ref> | prominence = 594 m (1950 ft) | prominence_ref = <ref name=PB/> | isolation = 3.62 km (2.25 mi) | isolation_ref = <ref name=PB/> | listing = {{unbulleted list |[[List of mountains of Yukon|Mountains of Yukon]] |[[List of the highest major summits of North America|North America highest peaks]] 25th |[[List of highest mountain peaks of Canada|Canada highest major peaks]] 12th |[[List of the highest major summits of the United States|US highest major peaks]] 12th }} | location = [[Yakutat City and Borough, Alaska]], U.S. / [[Yukon]], Canada | range = [[Saint Elias Mountains]] | parent_peak = [[Mount Hubbard]] | map = USA Alaska#Canada Yukon | map_caption = Location in Alaska##Location in Yukon | map_size = 250 | coordinates = {{coord|60|21|06|N|139|04|31|W|type:mountain_region:US-AK_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name=gnis>{{cite gnis|id=1398161|name=Mount Alverstone|access-date=2014-04-06}}</ref> | topo = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Mount Saint Elias B-3<br/>[[National Topographic System|NTS]] {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|115|B|6}} | first_ascent = 1951 by Walter Wood, Peter Wood, Robert Bates, Nicholas Clifford | easiest_route = glacier/snow/ice climb }}

'''Mount Alverstone''' or '''Boundary Peak 180''', is a high peak in the [[Saint Elias Mountains]], on the border between [[Alaska]] and [[Yukon]]. It shares a large massif with the higher [[Mount Hubbard]] to the south and the slightly lower [[Mount Kennedy]] to the east. The summit of Mount Alverstone marks a sharp turn in the Alaska/Canada border; the border goes south from this point toward the Alaska panhandle and west toward [[Mount Saint Elias]].

The mountain was named in 1908 for [[Richard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone|Lord Richard Everard Webster Alverstone]], Lord Chief Justice of England, 1900–13, and [[U.S. Boundary Commissioner]] in 1903. He served on various arbitration commissions including the one dealing with the [[Bering Sea Arbitration|Bering Sea Fur seal controversy]]. In the [[Alaska boundary dispute]] in 1903, his vote was the deciding one against Canadian claims.<ref name=gnis/> __NOTOC__ ==Climbing== Mount Alverstone was first climbed in 1951 by a party led by Walter Wood, during an expedition that also made the first ascent of Mount Hubbard. The successful climbs were tinged by tragedy when, upon returning from the peaks, Wood learned that his wife Foresta and daughter Valerie had died in a plane crash nearby along with their pilot. [[Mount Foresta]], near Mount Alverstone, is named in her honor. {{clear}}

==See also== {{Portal|North America|Alaska|Canada|Mountains}} *[[List of mountain peaks of North America]] **[[List of mountain peaks of Canada]] **[[List of mountain peaks of the United States]] *[[List of Boundary Peaks of the Alaska-British Columbia/Yukon border]] {{clear}}

==References== {{reflist}}

;Sources *{{cite book | author1 = Wood, Michael | author2 = Coombs, Colby | title = Alaska: A climbing guide | publisher = The Mountaineers | year = 2001 | url = http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Alaska-A-Climbing-Guide-P240.aspx | access-date = 2014-04-06 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202054838/http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Alaska-A-Climbing-Guide-P240.aspx | archive-date = 2017-02-02 | url-status = dead }}

==External links== {{sister project links}} *[http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=60.3499&lon=-139.0789&size=l&symshow=n&datum=nad83&layer=DRG250&s=500 Mount Alverstone on Topozone] *{{cite bivouac |id=242 |title=Mount Alverstone}}

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