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At the southern end of the St. Elias Mountains, on a peninsula south of the Alsek River where it enters Dry Bay, rises the unique and spectacular fault-block mountain system of the Fairweather Range. Its ice-clad summit, only nine miles from the sea, is Mount Fairweather (15,300 feet). At the southern end of this range is the Brady Icefield, and east of the range is world-renowned Glacier Bay,...
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