Mount Natazhat

{{Short description|Mountain in Alaska, United States}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Natazhat

| elevation_ft = 13435

| elevation_ref = {{cite peakbagger |pid=494 |name=Mount Natazhat, Alaska |access-date=2009-02-26}}

| prominence_ft = 5935

| prominence_ref =

| range = Saint Elias Mountains

| listing = {{unbulleted list

|North America highest peaks 96th

|US highest major peaks 79th

|US most prominent peaks 66th

|Alaska highest major peaks 19th

}}

| country = United States

| state = Alaska

| part_type = Protected area | part = Wrangell–St. Elias National Park and Preserve

| map = USA Alaska

| map_caption = Location in Alaska

| map_size = 270

| coordinates = {{coord|61.5219444|N|141.1011111|W|type:mountain_region:US-AK_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=1406862 |name=Mount Natazhat |access-date=2009-02-26}}

| topo = USGS McCarthy C-1

| first_ascent = June 1913 by Canadian Boundary Survey party (disputed)

{{cite book

| last1 = Wood | first1 = Michael

| last2 = Coombs | first2 = Colby

| title = Alaska : a climbing guide

| year = 2001 | edition = 1st

| publisher = The Mountaineers | location = Seattle

| isbn = 0-89886-724-X}}

| easiest_route = Northeast Ridge: glacier/snow climb

}}

Mount Natazhat is a high peak of the Saint Elias Mountains, of Alaska, United States, just west of the border with the Yukon Territory of Canada. It lies on the northern edge of the range, south of the White River and north of the Klutlan Glacier.

Mount Natazhat is a little-noticed peak; however it is a very large peak in terms of rise above local terrain. It rises {{convert|9000|ft|m|0}} in less than {{convert|7|mi|km|1}} above the lowlands to the north, and {{convert|7500|ft|m|0}} in about {{convert|4|mi|km|1}} above the Klutlan Glacier to the south.

The current standard route is that of the second ascent along the northeast ridge. This route was first climbed in 1996 by D. Hart, P. Barry, H. Hunt, and D. Lucey. It is moderately serious by Alaskan standards (Alaska Grade 3+), with some steep ice and corniced ridges.

Mount Natazhat is not often climbed due to its remote location and the fact that it is not a particularly high peak, especially by Alaskan standards. (Also, it is not even a fourteener.) In fact, the only mention of the peak in the complete Index of the American Alpine Journal is for the 1996 ascent noted above.{{cite web|url=http://americanalpineclub.org/docs/AAJ_Index_1929_2005_L_Z.pdf|title=Index of the American Alpine Journal|publisher=American Alpine Journal|access-date=2013-12-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060502040526/http://www.americanalpineclub.org/docs/AAJ_Index_1929_2005_L_Z.pdf|archive-date=2006-05-02|url-status=dead}}

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