Lituya Mountain

Mt. Fairweather, Mt. Salisbury, and Lituya Mountain

NPS Photo

Elevation: 11,924 ft.

Name published in Russian by Capt. Tebenkov (1852, map 8), IRN as "G(ora) L'tua " meaning "Lituya Mountain;" named for Lituya Bay. “Lituya is a compound word in the Tlingit language meaning “the lake within the point,” and the place is so called from the almost enclosed water within the extended spit of Lituya Bay. On the maps of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it appears variously as Port Francaise, Altona, Alituya, Ltooa, as well as Lituya.” (Native Account of the Meeting Between La Perouse and the Tlingit, by G.T. Emmons, p 294).

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Successful Summits

Date	Route	Climbers
6/1/1962	Unknown	Scott Arighi, Dave Bohn, David Chappelear, Hans Flachsmann-Rolfer, Arthur Maki, Martin Mushkin, and Lawrence Nielsen
1975	Unknown	Diana Dailey, David Dailey and Jim Nelson
5/2004	West Ridge	Bryn Clark, Louis Sass, Katie Snell, and Victor Pusca

Summit Attempts

Date	Route	Climbers	Reason for turnaround
1993	Southwest Ridge	John Thompson, Keith Carter, Urban Gebhard, Fritz Rodun and Gunter Zimmermann	Unknown