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Mount Fox

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3 192 m

Elevation

Elevation is the altitude of a place
above sea level.

412 m

Prominence

Peak’s prominence is the least
vertical to be covered to get from the
summit to any other higher terrain.

Proportional Prominence 2 008 m

About

Mount Fox in the Selkirk Mountains of Canada was named, by William Green, in honour of Harry Fox who perished with William Donkin and two Swiss guides, in the Caucasus Mountains. Mount Donkin is nearby.

Harry Fox (30 September 1856 – on or after 30 August 1888) was an English gentleman (also lived at Tone Dale House, Wellington, Somerset, England) who was a sportsman and adventurer. He played cricket and rugby for his country, and began climbing mountains in the mid-1880s.

In 1884 he started mountaineering, and within two years he was well known in the mountain climbing community, and a well-regarded alpine explorer. In 1888, he travelled with William Frederick Donkin to the Caucasus Mountains in the Russian Empire in a bid to be the first people to climb Koshtan-Tau, but the pair, along with their Swiss guides, died in an accident.

For the purposes of his will, Fox's death was recorded as being "on or since the 30th August, 1888, at some place unknown."

By elevation Mount Fox is

# 82 out of 767 in Columbia-Shuswap Regional District
# 13 out of 98 in Glacier National Park (Canada)
# 59 out of 2288 in the Columbia Mountains
# 22 out of 1072 in the Selkirk Mountains

By prominence Mount Fox is

# 20 out of 98 in Glacier National Park (Canada)