Helge Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer who spent time in Anaktuvuk Pass in 1949-1950, living and studying with the Nunamiut people of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska.

When he was preparing to leave, the native elders of the area symbolically gave Ingstad a mountain in the area as their thanks to him.

The U.S. Board of Geographic Names officially named the mountain on April 17, 2006, thanks to the efforts of Senator Ted Stevens and Ambassador Knut Vollebaek, at the request of Grant Spearman of the Simon Paneak Memorial Museum.

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