Mount Cairnes

Mount Cairnes is a two thousand eight hundred ten-metre mountain in Yukon’s Saint Elias Mountains, on the boundary of Kluane National Park. Visible from the Alaska Highway between Haines Junction and Kluane Lake, it rises in a subarctic climate marked by long, intensely cold snowy winters and mild summers, with temperatures dropping below minus twenty degrees Celsius and wind chills below minus thirty degrees Celsius. Runoff from the peak and meltwater from its pocket glaciers feed tributaries of the Kaskawulsh River. Officially adopted in nineteen eighty-one, the name honors Clive Elmore Cairnes of the Geological Survey of Canada and the Geographic Board of Canada, and the mountain is named for geologist DeLorme Donaldson Cairnes.

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