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Mount Fairweather is located right above Glacier Bay in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains. Mount Fairweather also marks the northwest extremity of the Alaska Panhandle . Like many peaks in the St. Elias Mountains, Mount Fairweather has great vertical relief due to its dramatic rise from Glacier Bay.
The Fairweather Range is the unofficial name for a mountain range located in the U.S. state of Alaska and the Canadian province of British Columbia. It is the southernmost range of the Saint Elias Mountains .
Allen Carpé (December 20, 1894 – May 9, 1932) was an American engineer and mountaineer who is the namesake of Mount Carpe in Alaska. [1] [2] He was the first person to have reached the summit of Mount Bona and Mount Fairweather.
Mount Fairweather at the apex of the British Columbia and Alaska borders at the head of the Alaska Panhandle is known as Tsalx̱aan; legend states that this mountain and Yasʼéitʼaa Shaa (Mt. St. Elias) originally stood next to each other, but had an argument and separated.
Fifty Years of Alaskan Statehood is located in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains. [1] It is set within Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and is situated six miles (9.7 km) northwest of Mount Bertha.
Mount Sanford Alaska: Wrangell Mountains: 16,237 ft 4949 m: 7,687 ft 2343 m: 40.3 mi 64.8 km 7 Mount Fairweather [f] (Fairweather Mountain) Alaska British Columbia: Saint Elias Mountains: 15,325 ft 4671 m: 12,995 ft 3961 m: 124.4 mi 200 km
The Mt. Fairweather (officially gazetted as Fairweather Mountain in Canada but referred to as Mount Fairweather), is located 20 kilometers (12 mi) east of the Pacific Ocean in the Glacier Bay region. While most of the mountain lies within the City and Borough of Yakutat, the summit is also in Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, British Columbia ...
Lituya Mountain is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and bad weather in the Fairweather Range. The Lituya name was published in 1852 as G(ora) L'tua, meaning "Lituya Mountain" in Russian by Mikhail Tebenkov of the Imperial Russian Navy. [2]