Mount La Perouse

Mount La Perouse

NPS Photo

Elevation: 10,728 ft.

Named in 1874 by W.H. Dall, USC&GC, for Jean Francois de Galaup de la Persouse, a French Navigator who explored the coast in this area in 1786. La Persouse was a member of the French Navy.

". . . We were members of a U.S. Geological Survey party investigating the geology of a layered gabbro body which makes up Mount La Perouse and Mount Crillon. One critical section of this gabbro body was exposed near the summit of Mount La Perouse, which meant that if we were to be thorough in our investigation we would have to climb the mountain.”
- James Seitz (“Ascent of Mount La Perouse,” A.A.J., 1953, 8:3)

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Successful Summits

Date	Route	Climbers
8/15/1992	Unknown	James Seitz, Karl Stauffer, Rowland Tabor, Rolland Reid. and Paul Bowen
1989	East Peak	R. Griesmann and L. Sheiblehner
7/6/1972	East Peak via the Northeast Ridge and the North Face	Larry Nielson and Dusan Jagersky
4/1988	Northwest Ridge	Paul Barnes and Loren Adkins (personal phone interview)