11 Tallest Mountains in North America

10. Mount Bona, 16,550 feet

Alaska’s Mount Bona, also in the Saint Elias Mountains, is a very steep, glacier-covered volcano. An Italian explorer named Mount Bono after his yacht, an Italian word meaning “good,” in the 1890s, but it wasn’t until 1930 that anyone climbed this intimidating mountain.

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9. King Peak, 16,972 feet

King Peak and Mount Steele are neighbors in the Yukon, where King Peak is “climbable” all year round after first being scaled in 1952.