Mount Logan

Canada also has around 52,000 islands.

The highest point in the country is Mount Logan, which stands at 5,959 meters in the St. Elias Mountains in the Yukon territory.

The largest lake that's entirely within Canada is Great Bear Lake in the Northwest Territories, which has a surface area of 31,328 square kilometers.

Canada's deepest lake at a depth of 614 meters is the unfortunately named Great Slave Lake, also in the Northwest Territories.

Near the sea, a magnificent spectacle to tourists, rise the superb untried ice castles of Mount Krillin, Mount Fairweather, and Mount Les Pros.

Farther north stands St. Elias and even loftier Mount Logan, the latter nineteen thousand feet in altitude, to say nothing of their hardly less stupendous companion peaks.

These are the kings among American Alps, and none of them but St. Elias has been climbed.

The Climbing of Mount St. Elias The new and boldest type of American mountaineering is of very recent origin.

Clever, clever.

They are going to do A reenactment of a 1925 ascent up Mount Logan in the Yukon.

It's the highest mountain in Canada, the second highest peak in North America.

Brian has been speaking to Miriam about this expedition.

The Alpine Club of Canada, which is Canada's mountaineering organization, was formed in the early 1900s.

decided in 1922 that they wanted to try to scale Canada's highest peak, which is Mount Logan.

It's just under 6,000 meters high, second highest peak in North America, located in Kluane National Park in the Yukon.

And no one had ever climbed it before.

We just saw that at the tourism center.

And Mount Logan is one of those mountains.

Yeah.

It's buried deep in the glacial field at the back.