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Mount Dan Fox is a 10,891-foot peak in Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains. Its terrain is especially steep, with the north face rising 2,400 feet in half a mile. Chris Trimble and Jim Earl made the first ascent on April 21, 1999, climbing that north face and naming the mountain for Daniel T. "Dan" Fox, a mountaineer and counselor who died that year at age 47 from lung cancer linked to secondhand smoke exposure. A tundra climate, heavy precipitation, and persistent cold support glaciers on all sides, with May through July offering the best conditions for viewing or climbing.
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