Mount Fairweather
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mountain in the Saint Elias Mountains on the border between Alaska and British Columbia
Key facts
- Elevation
- 4,671 m (15,325 ft) , NAVD88
- Prominence
- 3,951 m (12,963 ft) , Ranked 26th
- Isolation
- 200 km (120 mi)
- Listing
- Mountains of British Columbia 1st North America highest peaks 18th North America prominent peaks 6th North America isolated peaks 106th Canada highest major peaks 9th US highest major peaks 7th Canadian subnational high points 2nd
- Location
- Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve , Alaska / Stikine Region, British Columbia
- Parent range
- Fairweather Range
- Topo map
- NTS 114I13
- First ascent
- June 8, 1931 by Allen Carpé and Terris Moore
- Easiest route
- glacier/snow/ice climb
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Fairweather (or Tsalxaan in the Tlingit language) is a mountain located 20 km (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean on the Canada–United States border. With an elevation of 4,653 metres (15,266 ft), it is the tallest mountain in British Columbia and the seventh-tallest mountain in both Alaska and the United States. Fairweather is part of the Saint Elias Mountains and mostly lies within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, though the summit borders Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park.
After a failed attempt in 1926, Fairweather was first climbed in 1931 by Allen Carpé and Terris Moore.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mount Fairweather” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.