Mount Dan Beard, Mountain summit in Denali National Park, Alaska, United States
Mount Dan Beard is a 10,082-foot (3,073 m) mountain in the Alaska Range, inside Denali National Park and Preserve. It lies southeast of Denali and overlooks the Don Sheldon Amphitheater of Ruth Glacier. Its summit rises about 1,710 feet above the surrounding ridges.
The peak was named in 1910 by explorers Herschel Parker and Belmore Browne in honor of Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone. This naming connected Alaska's mountaineering history with early American outdoor youth movements.
The name honours Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator and founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, a boys' outdoor organisation that later merged into the Boy Scouts of America. Herschel Clifford Parker and Belmore Browne gave the mountain this name in 1910 while exploring the Alaska Range.
Mount Dan Beard sits southeast of Denali, above the Don Sheldon Amphitheater of Ruth Glacier, in Denali National Park and Preserve. Access is by ski plane landing on the glacier; there are no trails or roads. The nearest settlement is many kilometres away, and the surrounding terrain is glacier and steep rock.
Mount Dan Beard was named in 1910 by Herschel Clifford Parker and Belmore Browne after Daniel Carter Beard, illustrator and founder of the Sons of Daniel Boone, a forerunner of the Boy Scouts. The peak overlooks the Don Sheldon Amphitheater of the Ruth Glacier, southeast of Denali.
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