Talk:Mountain peaks of Alaska

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[edit] Topographic Prominence

The primary criterion for inclusion in this article is that a peak must have at least 500 meters (1,640.42 ft) of topographic prominence. Many of the peaks in the National Park Service publication Highest Alaskan Summits do not meet this criterion. Please see peakbagger.com for the prominence of these peaks. There are many wonderful peaks with less prominence, but this article uses this high prominence criterion. --Buaidh (talk) 16:54, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mount Vancouver

Good Neighbor Peak should be on your list, or at least have a footnote. As Mount Vancouver's south summit, it is on the US-Canada border and therefore an Alaskan peak. As its article indicates, it is uncertain which summit it higher. If it is the higher summit, then it has plenty of prominence.ArcticBartek (talk) 16:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Peakbagger.com states "The consensus among climbers who have summited this remote and rarely-climbed peak is that the northern summit, entirely in the Yukon, is the highest. However, there is serious disagreement over the elevations."
I have assumed that this is indeed the case, and I show the highest summit of Mount Vancouver as a Canadian peak. Please see Mountain peaks of Canada and Mountain peaks of North America for Mount Vancouver. --Buaidh (talk) 17:25, 15 April 2008 (UTC)