page_title: Mount Foraker
section_title: Notable ascents
hierarchical_section_title: Mount Foraker / Notable ascents
caption_attribution_description: English: This photo showing Mt McKinley was taken from Kashwitna Lake, nearly 100 miles apart, showing the south face of the mountain. Denali is on the right, with Mt Hunter in the center and Mt Foraker on the left.
context_page_description: Mount Foraker is a 17,400-foot mountain in the central Alaska Range, in Denali National Park, 14 mi southwest of Denali. It is the second highest peak in the Alaska Range, and the third highest peak in the United States. It rises almost directly above the standard base camp for Denali, on a fork of the Kahiltna Glacier also near Mount Hunter in the Alaska Range.
  Its north peak was first climbed on August 6, 1934, and its higher south peak was climbed four days later on August 10, by Charles Houston, T. Graham Brown, and Chychele Waterston, via the west ridge.
context_section_description: 1934 West Ridge FA of Mount Foraker by Charles Houston, T. Graham Brown and Chychele Waterston.
  1963 Southeast Ridge. 2nd ascent. July 7. By Jim Richardson and Jeff Duenwald. Expedition led by Adams Carter.
  1968 Talkeetna Ridge, South Ridge FA by Alex Bertulis, Warren Bleser, Hans Baer and Peter Williamson (US). The summit was reached on July 26, 1968. 4th ascent of peak.
  1974 Southwest Toe of Southeast Ridge, variation to the South Ridge, ascent by Peter Reagan, Joe Davidson, Bob Fries, Jim Given, Mark Greenfield, Pippo Lionni, Eric Morgan and Frank Uher.
  1975 Archangel Ridge, the north ridge, FA by Gerard and Barbara Roach, Brad Johnson, David Wright, Stewart Krebs and Charles Campbell.  Summit reached on July 14, 1975. Subsequently skied.
  1976 French Ridge, the South/Southeast Ridge, FA by Henri Agresti, Jean-Marie Galmiche, Gerard Creton, Herve Thivierge, Isabelle Agresti (all France) and Werner Landry (US).  Summit reached on June 3 and 4, 1976.
  1977 Infinite Spur, on the south face by Michael Kennedy and George Lowe. Ascent time 6 days.
  1977 Southwest Ridge, Nancey Goforth, Erik LeRoy, Chris Liddle, and Murray Marvin. The summit was reached on June 25, 1977, after 47 days spent on Mount Foraker.
  1989 Infinite Spur, second ascent or route by Mark Bebie and Jim Nelson (US).  Summit reached on June 24, 1989 after 13 days on the mountain.
  1990 False Dawn, on the southeast face, first ascent by John Phelan (US) and David Sharman (UK).  Summit reached on May 27, 1990 after 5 days on the mountain.
  2016 Infinite Spur, first solo ascent and fastest ascent to date, by Colin Haley. Ascent time was 12:29 from the bergschrund to summit. The descent was completed in a whiteout via the Sultana Ridge over the ensuing 48 hours.
caption: Mt Foraker, on the left, is 3,000' shorter than Denali on the right, but appears taller in this image due to foreshortening.  Photo taken from Kashwitna Lake  roughly 100 miles (160 km) south of the mountains. Mt Hunter is just to the left of Denali.
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