Mount Koven | |
Elevation Ft: | 12142 |
Elevation Ref: | [1] |
Prominence Ft: | 1260 |
Range: | Alaska Range |
Map: | USA Alaska |
Map Size: | 250 |
Label Position: | right |
Location: | Denali Borough, Alaska, United States |
Coordinates: | 63.1336°N -150.8956°W |
Topo: | USGS Mount McKinley A-2 |
Mount Koven is a 121420NaN0 mountain in the Alaska Range, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Mount Eldridge lies to the northeast of Denali on Karstens Ridge, with Mount Carpe to the northeast on the Carpe Ridge extension of Denali's northeast buttress. Mount Koven overlooks the Great Icefall of Muldrow Glacier, with the west fork of Traleika Glacier to the east. It was named for Theodore G. Koven, who, while trying to rescue Allen Carpé (for whom Mount Carpe is named) from a crevasse in Muldrow Glacier, fell into the same crevasse and was killed while on the Rockefeller Cosmic Ray Expedition in May 1932.[2] [3]