Fairweather, Mount

Fairweather, Mount

Mountain, British Columbia, Canada. It is located on the Alaska border in the Fairweather Range of the St. Elias Mountains, at the southern end of Tatshenshini-Alsek Wilderness Provincial Park in British Columbia and in western Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. The highest peak in the province, it reaches 15,299 ft (4,663 m). It was named by Capt. James Cook, who saw the peak in 1778 while navigating the bay in “fair weather.”