Mount Salisbury

For the mountain in Antarctica, see Mount Salisbury (Antarctica).

Mount Salisbury is a 12,170-foot (3,709 m) peak in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, six miles (10 km) southeast of Mount Fairweather. Its east slopes feed one of the northern branches of the Johns Hopkins Glacier, which flows into Glacier Bay. On its western side is a large cirque, shared with Mount Fairweather, Mount Quincy Adams, and Lituya Mountain, which heads the Fairweather Glacier; this flows almost to the Pacific coast at Cape Fairweather.

Mount Salisbury
Mount Salisbury centered in the distance beyond Margerie Glacier, with Mount Tlingit to right.
Highest point
Elevation	12,170 ft (3,709 m)[1]
Prominence	3,970 ft (1,210 m)[2]
Parent peak	Mount Tlingit[3]
Isolation	3.04 mi (4.89 km)[3]
Listing	Highest US summits (#176)
Coordinates	58.850818°N 137.372745°W / 58.850818; -137.372745[4]
Naming
Etymology	Rollin D. Salisbury
Geography
Mount Salisbury
Country	United States
State	Alaska
Census Area	Hoonah–Angoon
Protected area	Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Parent range	Fairweather Range
Topo map	USGS Mount Fairweather D-5[4]
Climbing
First ascent	1977 by J Nelson, S Swenson, J Eberharter, G Thompson
Easiest route	glacier/snow/ice climb

Though not exceptional in terms of absolute elevation, Mount Salisbury does possess great vertical relief over local terrain: for example, the southwest side of the mountain drops over 10,000 feet (3,048 m) to the Johns Hopkins Glacier in only five miles.

Mount Salisbury is not often climbed, partly due to its proximity to the higher and better-known Mount Fairweather, and partly due to difficult access and the typically bad weather that this range possesses.

Etymology

The mountain was named by W. O. Field, Jr. and William Skinner Cooper in 1936 to honor Rollin D. Salisbury (1858–1922), American geologist and professor of geology at the University of Chicago from 1892 until his death.^[4] The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1937 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.^[4]

Gallery

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  Mount Salisbury to right
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  Northeast aspect
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  East aspect