Mount Redoubt (Alaska)

Infobox Mountain
Name = Mount Redoubt
Photo = MountRedoubt.jpg
Caption = South face in 1980
Elevation = convert|10197|ft|m|0|lk=on [http://bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=7656 Mount Redoubt on bivouac.com] ]
Location = Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA
Range = Chigmit Mountains, Aleutian Range
Prominence = convert|2788|m|ft|0|abbr=on
Coordinates = coord|60|29|07|N|152|44|35|W|region:US|display=inline,titleGnis|1413853|Redoubt Volcano]
Type=Stratovolcano
Age=890,000 yearsVNUM|1=1103-03-|2=Mount Redoubt]
Last eruption=1989 [http://www.avo.alaska.edu/volcanoes/volcinfo.php?volcname=Redoubt Alaska Volcano Observatory - Redoubt] ]
First ascent = 1959 by C Deehr, J Gardey, F Kennell, G Wescott
Easiest route =snow/ice climb

Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active volcano and is the highest peak in the Aleutian Range in Alaska. It is located in the Chigmit Mountains (a subrange of the Aleutians), west of Cook Inlet, about 180 km (110 miles) southwest of Anchorage, Alaska.

Mount Redoubt erupted in 1902, 1966 and 1989. The eruption in 1989 spewed volcanic ash to a height of 14,000 m (45,000 ft) and managed to catch KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight 867, a Boeing 747 aircraft, in its plume (the flight landed safely at Anchorage). The ash covered an area of about 20,000 km² (7,700 sq. miles).

Mount Redoubt is not a particularly steep peak, but it is a massive mountain: it rises 9,000 feet (2,700 m) above the surrounding valleys to the north, south, and southeast in little over 5 miles (8 km).

Although the mountain is easily accessible by air, information is lacking on climbing routes on the volcano.

ee also

*Mountain peaks of Alaska
*Mountain peaks of North America
*Mountain peaks of the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=60.4847&lon=-152.7453&s=500&size=l&symshow=y&datum=nad83&layer=DRG250 Mount Redoubt on Topozone]