Mount Saint Elias
— — eighteen thousand feet, ten miles from the water.
Not only on a wall.
“The second-highest peak in the United States and in Canada, on the border between Alaska and Yukon, inside the Wrangell-St. Elias and Kluane parks. The summit sits at 18,008 feet, less than ten miles from tidewater at Icy Bay. The first ascent was made by the Duke of the Abruzzi's Italian party in 1897, who roped up onto the southwest ridge from a glacier camp. Few mountains in the world rise so far so fast. — from the studio
Mount Saint Elias, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Mount Saint Elias rises to 18,008 feet on the Alaska-Yukon border, the second-highest peak in both the United States and Canada. It anchors the Saint Elias Mountains and straddles the boundary between Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska and Kluane National Park and Reserve in Yukon, both part of the largest contiguous UNESCO World Heritage protected area on the planet. The mountain sits less than ten miles from tidewater at Icy Bay on the Gulf of Alaska, an unusually short horizontal distance for so tall a peak.
Saint Elias is one of the stormiest mountains on earth, sitting where Gulf of Alaska moisture meets the high coastal wall. The summit gets only a handful of clear-weather windows a year, and storms can pin climbers at high camps for days. The peak was first climbed on 31 July 1897 by an Italian expedition led by Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, who traversed the Newton Glacier and the southwest ridge. Modern attempts on the steep west and south faces remain among the most committing in North America.
There is no road to Mount Saint Elias. The peak is reached only by bush plane or boat, with the closest community Yakutat, about 60 miles east on the Gulf of Alaska coast. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, the largest national park in the United States at 13.2 million acres, manages the Alaska side; Kluane manages the Yukon side. Most visitors see the mountain by flightseeing from Yakutat or by scenic flights out of Haines Junction in Yukon, weather permitting.