The summit of Mount Alverstone marks a sharp turn in the Alaska/Canada border; the border goes south from this point toward the Alaska panhandle and west toward Mount Saint Elias.

He served on various arbitration commissions including the one dealing with the Bering Sea Fur seal controversy.

In the Alaska boundary dispute in 1903, his vote was the deciding one against Canadian claims.

The successful climbs were tinged by tragedy when, upon returning from the peaks, Wood learned that his wife Foresta and daughter Valerie had died in a plane crash nearby along with their pilot.

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