Parent range Fairweather Range Elevation 3,709 m Prominence 1,210 m | Easiest route glacier/snow/ice climb First ascent 1977 | |
Location Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, U.S. Mountain range Fairweather Range, Saint Elias Mountains Similar Mount Quincy Adams, Mount Crillon, Mount Fairweather, Mount Hubbard, Mount Saint Elias | ||
Mount Salisbury is a peak in the Fairweather Range of Alaska, 6 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.
Map of Mt Salisbury, Alaska 99826, USA
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 ironically possesses.