page_title: Thirteener
section_title: Alaska
hierarchical_section_title: Thirteener / List of United States thirteeners by state / Alaska
caption_attribution_description: Mount Jarvis, 4,091 m (13,421 ft) high, is the youngest volcano in the eastern Wrangell Volcanic Field. Mount Jarvis was active approximately 1 to 2 million years ago. View is to the southweast, with the Jacksina Glacier flowing away from the mountain towards the camera. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA
context_page_description: In mountaineering in the United States, a thirteener is a mountain that exceeds 13,000 feet above mean sea level, similar to the more familiar "fourteeners," which exceed 14,000 feet. In most instances, "thirteeners" refers only to those peaks between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation.
  The importance of thirteeners is greatest in Colorado, which has the majority of such peaks in North America with over 600 of them. Despite the large number of peaks, over 20 peak baggers have reported climbing all of Colorado's thirteeners. Thirteeners are also significant in states whose highpoints fall between 13,000 and 13,999 feet. Regarding whether or not peaks in excess of 13,999 feet should be considered as "thirteeners", this article will count them as such for statistical purposes, but concentrate its focus on those peaks less than 14,000 feet since the higher peaks are already covered in the fourteeners list.
  Not all summits over 13,000 feet qualify as thirteeners, but only those summits that mountaineers consider to be independent. Objective standards for independence include topographic prominence and isolation, or a combination.
context_section_description: Alaska has at least 41 thirteeners that meet its more stringent prominence criteria of 500 ft, of which 20 are also fourteeners.  Different sources list varying numbers  of 13,000+ ft peaks in the state, mainly because many of the peaks (especially those that are sub-peaks of a higher mountain) are unnamed and have no spot elevations given on the USGS topographical maps.  Using a 300' interpolated prominence criterion, there are 61 13,000+ ft peaks in Alaska.  The following list may miss a few peaks that should be included:
caption: Mount Jarvis (north and main peaks), Alaska
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