Artist: Jim Mackovjak

These lupine plants are growing near the summit of Tree Mountain, a peak named by John Muir. When Muir was in Glacier Bay in the 1890s, Tree Mountain was a 'nunatak' – a mountain surrounded by glaciers with just the summit poking above the ice. Tree Mountain is no longer ringed by glaciers; in fact I climbed it 80 years after Muir was here without stepping on any ice at all.