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Mount Fairweather, or Tsalxaan in Tlingit, is a towering coastal peak in the Saint Elias Mountains on the Alaska-British Columbia border, rising abruptly from near sea level above Glacier Bay. The highest mountain in British Columbia and among the tallest in Alaska and the United States, it is renowned for severe weather despite its English name, which Captain James Cook gave in 1778 during unusually fine conditions. In Tlingit tradition, it is linked to nearby Mount St. Elias. After failed climbing attempts in 1926 and 1930, Allen Carpé and Terris Moore made the first successful ascent in 1931 via the Southeast Ridge.
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