60 years ago: The 1958 earthquake and Lituya Bay megatsunami | Alaska Earthquake Center

Lituya BayA flying boat dropped Paddy Sherman’s mountaineering expedition at Lituya Bay on June 17, 1958. Over the next three weeks, the climbers made the second ascent of Mount Fairweather, a first ascent of an unnamed peak, and had come within 200 feet of the first ascent of Mount Lituya. When hot..