Denali — Alpenglow Over Alaska Range
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North America’s highest peak photographed from a position on the Kahiltna Glacier at 3,000 metres — the full south face of Denali bathed in alpenglow above a sea of cloud filling the lower valleys.
Description
Denali — formerly Mount McKinley — rises to 6,190 metres above sea level and presents one of the greatest base-to-summit elevation gains of any mountain on Earth, rising over 5,000 metres above the surrounding Alaskan lowlands. Access to the technical vantage points that reveal the mountain’s true scale requires either glacier landing via bush plane to the Kahiltna Base Camp or a multi-day approach. This photograph was made from the upper Kahiltna Glacier at 3,000 metres altitude during a 37-day mountaineering expedition, at the moment of alpenglow when the summit and upper ice ridges were illuminated in deep rose while clouds filled the valleys 2,000 metres below. The complete south face buttress — the Cassin Ridge, the Messner Couloir, and the main summit pyramid — is fully resolved in a single frame, providing the definitive record of this extraordinary mountain face.
