Mount Redoubt (Alaska)

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Mount Redoubt
South face in 1980
Elevation	10,197 feet (3,108 m)^[1]
Location	Alaska, USA
Range	Chigmit Mountains, Aleutian Range
Prominence	2,788 m (9,147 ft)^[1]
Coordinates	60°29′07″N, 152°44′35″W^[2]
Type	Stratovolcano
Age of rock	890,000 years^[3]
Last eruption	1989^[4]
First ascent	1959 by C Deehr, J Gardey, F Kennell, G Wescott^[1]
Easiest route	snow/ice climb

Mount Redoubt, or Redoubt Volcano, is an active volcano and is the highest peak in the Aleutian Range on the Alaska Peninsula 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 again in 1989. The eruption in 1989 spewed volcanic ash to a height of 14,000 m (45,000 feet) 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).

1 Notable Ascents and Descents
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Notable Ascents and Descents

Although the mountain is easily accessible by air, information is lacking on climbing routes on the volcano. Tyler Johnson, Rory Stark and Craig Barnard climbed a direct line on the North Face to the north summit and recorded the first ski decent of the North Face in May 2007.^{[citation needed]}