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Mount Einstein is a glaciated summit in the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, standing 11,552 feet above sea level. It is located 32 miles northwest of Valdez and is the sixth-highest peak in the Chugach range. The mountain sits at the head of Yale Glacier within Chugach National Forest.
David Bohn, Arthur Maki Jr., Don Mokski, Martin Mushkin, and Lawrence E. Nielsen made the first ascent of Mount Einstein. They reached the summit on the 17th of June, 1957.
Mount Einstein was named in 1955 by members of the Chugach Mountains Expedition. The United States Geological Survey later adopted the name officially.
Mount Einstein was named to honor physicist Albert Einstein, who was considered one of the greatest scientists of all time and was known for his Theory of relativity. Einstein was born in 1879 and died in 1955, the same year the Chugach Mountains Expedition chose the name.
Mount Einstein sits in a subarctic climate zone with long cold winters and mild summers. Weather systems from the Gulf of Alaska are forced upward by the Chugach range through orographic lift, producing heavy rainfall and snowfall. Temperatures can fall below negative 20 degrees Celsius, with wind chill pushing the effective temperature below negative 30 degrees Celsius.
Yale Glacier and Columbia Glacier both surround Mount Einstein, sustained by the heavy snowfall the mountain's subarctic climate generates. The mountain sits at the upper end of Yale Glacier. May and June offer the most favorable conditions for climbing or viewing the peak.