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Fairweather Range, Saint Elias Mountains, Alaska/British Columbia border (Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska) · USA
Mount Fairweather
Mount Fairweather is the highest peak in British Columbia and the highest coastal mountain in North America, its summit rising directly above the Pacific within sight of the open Gulf of Alaska. Almost the entire massif lies inside Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, and despite the ironic name Captain Cook gave it in 1778, the peak is infamous for some of the wettest, most changeable weather on the continent. Its normal route, the Carpe-Moore Ridge, is a moderate but serious glacier climb with sustained 40-50 degree snow and ice and notoriously difficult route-finding through heavily crevassed terrain. With roughly 3,951 m of topographic prominence -- among the greatest of any peak on Earth -- Fairweather stands almost entirely alone above the surrounding icefields.
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