Mount Shivling(6543 m) Base Camp

Mount Saint Elias (5 510 m / 18 077 ft)

Mountain is located only about 12 km from sea level as of 2004, measured from the now-stable terminus of the tidewater Tyndall Glacier. During most of the 20th century, as Tyndall Glacier retreated, the distance from the summit to sea level has decreased from nearly 60 km to the present 12 km. This ongoing retreat has produced one of the steepest topographic gradients anywhere on Earth.