The Secret Location Most Americans Will Never See

There's a mountain in that North Cascades National Park that you cannot see from any road in America. It's the highest peak in the park. Almost nobody knows it exists. In 1883, a 24-year-old USGS surveyor named Richard Urquhart Goode put his name on a peak in the Cascades from fifty miles away through a telescope. He never went there. He died 20 years later, having never touched the mountain that now bears his name. For 53 years after him, nobody else stood on it either. It took 36 miles of walking, a glacier, a 3,000-foot wall the size of El Capitan, and a night on a piece of summit the size of a kitchen table to find out what's actually up there. The valley underneath has been walked by people for 9,000 years. The route most climbers use today was put up in 1966 by Fred Beckey, the most prolific first-ascensionist in American climbing history. The glacier on the mountain's face has been retreating since the 1990s and is on a clock the mountain itself isn't. There's a category of places in America that almost nobody knows exists. Most of them are reserved for the people who make the effort to walk to them. Mt. Goode is one of them. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 — The Mountain You Can't Find 1:14 — At the Trailhead. 36 Miles, Five Climbers 2:03 — The Man Who Named It From 50 Miles Away 4:28 — A 53-Year Silence 5:20 — July 22, 1936, Wolf Bauer Stands on the Summit 7:47 — A Hole in the Road Map 10:01 — Why Famous Mountains Are Famous 11:26 — The 9,000-Year Corridor Underneath 13:36 — August 6, 1966, Fred Beckey's Route 14:33 — What the Mountain Demands of You 17:11 — A Summit the Size of a Kitchen Table 18:45 — The Disappearance Already Underway 20:25 — Places Reserved for the People Who Walk 🎬 NEXT VIDEO — GOAT CANYON TRESTLE    • I Biked 17 Miles to a Wooden Bridge That S...