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Mount Logan [for Sir William Logan ], 19,551 ft (5,959 m) high, in Kluane National Park, extreme SW Yukon Territory, Canada, just E of Alaska; highest mountain in Canada and second highest in North America. It caps an immense tableland and is the center of the greatest glacial expanse in North America. The first ascent was made in 1925.

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Logan, Mount

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Logan, Mount (officially Pierre Elliott Trudeau Mountain) Peak in the St Elias Mountains, Yukon, Canada. At 6050m (19,849ft), it is the highest in Canada and the second-highest in North America. It was first climbed in 1925.

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