Mount Fay

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Mount Fay
Mount Fay Banff 2009.jpeg
Mount Fay seen from Moraine Lake
Highest point
Elevation3,235 m (10,614 ft)[1]
Prominence389 m (1,276 ft)[2]
Parent peakMount Allen 3280 m[2]
Coordinates51°17′58″N 116°09′43″W / 51.29944°N 116.16194°W / 51.29944; -116.16194Coordinates: 51°17′58″N 116°09′43″W / 51.29944°N 116.16194°W / 51.29944; -116.16194[3]
Geography
Mount Fay is located in Alberta
Mount Fay
Mount Fay
Location on Alberta and British Columbia border
CountryCanada
ProvincesAlberta and British Columbia
National ParkBanff
Parent rangeBow Range
Topo mapNTS 82N8 Lake Louise
Climbing
First ascent1904 Gertrude Benham, Christian Kaufmann[1]
Easiest routeSouth-West Face
Mount Fay and Fay Glacier

Mount Fay is a mountain located on the border of Alberta and British Columbia on the Continental Divide in the Canadian Rockies. The mountain forms part of the backdrop to Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks of Banff National Park. It was named in 1902 by Charles E. Fay, an early explorer of the Canadian Rockies. He was a member of the party who attempted Mount Lefroy in 1896 when the first mountaineer to be killed in the Canadian Rockies occurred.[1]

Notable ascents[]

  • 1904 First ascent by Gertrude Benham ahead of the mountain's namesake alpinist Charles E. Fay.[4]
  • 1937 December 22 First winter ascent by E.R. Gibson, Doug Crosby, and Bob Hind[5]
  • 1984 East Face (V/VI 5.8 WI5) FA by Barry Blanchard, David Cheesmond and Carl Tobin.[6] Repetition of the East Face and variation on the finish was done from 2–3 April 2019 by Brette Harrington, and Ines Papert.[7]

Geology[]

Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Fay is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[8] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[9]

Climate[]

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Fay is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[10] Temperatures can drop below −20 C with wind chill factors below −30 C.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Mount Fay". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  2. ^ a b "Mount Fay". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
  3. ^ "Mount Fay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
  4. ^ Williams, Chris (2005). "'That Boundless Ocean Of Mountains': British Alpinists and the Appeal of the Canadian Rockies, 1885-1920". International Journal of the History of Sport. 22 (1): 81. doi:10.1080/095233605200314601. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  5. ^ Gibson, E.R. (June 1938). "First Winter Ascent of Mt. Fay". Canadian Alpine Journal. Alpine Club of Canada. XXV (1937): 93. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
  6. ^ Blanchard, Barry (Summer 2011). "Sanctum". Alpinist. Jeffersonville, VT, USA: Height of Land Publications. 2011 (35): 68–73. ISSN 1540-725X.
  7. ^ "Harrington, Lindič and Papert Complete First Integral Ascent of Mt. Fay's East Face". Rock and Ice (in American English). Retrieved 2019-11-12.
  8. ^ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  9. ^ Gadd, Ben (2008). "Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias". {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  10. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.

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