| Mount Deception | |
| Elevation Ft: | 11539 |
| Elevation Ref: | [1] |
| Prominence Ft: | 2126 |
| Range: | Alaska Range |
| Listing: | List of mountain peaks of Alaska |
| Location: | Denali Borough, Alaska, United States |
| Map: | USA Alaska |
| Map Size: | 250 |
| Label Position: | right |
| Coordinates: | 63.1583°N -150.5308°W |
| Topo: | USGS Mount McKinley A-2 |
| First Ascent: | November 1944 |
| Easiest Route: | Northeast ridge |
Mount Deception is a 115390NaN0 mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Deception lies 16miles east-southeast of Denali, overlooking Brooks Glacier. The glacier-covered mountain was named by a U.S. Army crash investigation party on November 13, 1944, who were the first to ascend the mountain while investigating an airplane crash that happened in September 1944.[2] [3]
On September 18, 1944, a US Army C-47 which took off from Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, en route to Ladd Army Airfield in Fairbanks, Alaska. For reasons unknown the plane traveled off course crashing into the then unnamed peak killing all 15 passengers and 4 crew members. A 44-man rescue expedition reached the crash site in early November but a recent ten-foot snowfall exasperated efforts to find any remains.
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