Measuring the Highest Peaks in the Brooks Range
![Kit Deslauriers, the only person to climb and ski down the tallest mountains on seven continents, ascends the highest peak in the Brooks Range, Mount Isto, in 2014. Photo by Andy Bardon. Measuring the Highest Peaks in the Brooks Range](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/image21-12-2015-06.54.59.jpg)
U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps give you a choice on the height of Mount Isto. Depending on what map scale you choose, the mountain in the Brooks Range is either higher or lower than 9,000 feet. Using a new combination of techniques, an Alaska researcher has crowned Mt. Isto the highest peak in America’s arctic, […]