Mount Deception
Overlooking Brooks Glacier is 11,539-foot Mt. Deception.
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Mount Deception Details
Overlooking Brooks Glacier is 11,539-foot Mt. Deception, whose name stems from an Army expedition investigating a plane crash during the Second World War. The C-47 transport plane carrying 19 passengers crashed into the mountain on Sept. 18, 1944 and the wreckage was soon spotted, but it took a Land Sea Rescue team 53 days to reach the crash site. Bizarrely, no bodies (or even body parts) were ever found. The previously unnamed peak was christened Mt. Deception in memory of the crash.
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Nearby Points of Interest Around Mount Deception
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2.2 mi away
Brooks Glacier
Brooks Glacier flows northeast for nine miles before merging with Muldrow Glacier.
3.9 mi away
Mount Mather
Mt. Mather is a 12,096-foot peak to the northeast of Denali (Mt. McKinley).
4.2 mi away
Mount Brooks
The 11,890-foot Mt. Brooks sits at the confluence of the Muldrow, Traleika, and Brooks glaciers.
5.3 mi away
Mount Silverthrone
Mt. Silverthrone is 13,219 feet high and thick with glaciers.
6.0 mi away
Mt. Eldridge
This 10,082-foot mountain looms over the glacier of the same name.
