Mount Ulysses

Mount Ulysses, is the highest mountain in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It and neighbouring peaks are part of a group of names drawing on the epic poem The Odyssey, in which here Ulysses wanders for 10 years before being able to return home to Ithaca.[3]

Mount Ulysses
Highest point
Elevation3,024 m (9,921 ft)[1]
Prominence2,289 m (7,510 ft)[1][2]
Listing
Coordinates57°20′47″N 124°05′34″W[1]
Geography
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Parent rangeMuskwa Ranges
Topo mapNTS 94F/08

Located north of the headwaters of the Akie River and to the south of Sikanni Chief Lake,[3] its very high prominence of 2,289 m (7,510 ft) is relative to Grand Pacific Pass, with its parent peak being an unnamed summit in the Fairweather Range, near Mount Fairweather.[1]

It was first climbed in 1961.

See also

  • List of the most prominent summits of North America
  • Most isolated mountain peaks of Canada
  • Highest mountain peaks of Canada

References

  1. "Mount Ulysses". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2009-11-09.
  2. "British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2013-01-11.
  3. "Ulysses, Mount". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
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