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Mount Fisher, locally called Fisher Peak, is a prominent 2,843-metre mountain in the Hughes Range of the Canadian Rockies in southeastern British Columbia, visible from Cranbrook, the Crowsnest Highway, and the valley near Fort Steele. Its name reflects the region’s gold-rush past: in 1915 it was named for prospector John S. “Jack” Fisher, whose gold discoveries on Wildhorse Creek in 1863 and 1864 helped spark the rise of Fisherville, later razed so miners could work the ground beneath it. The summit was first recorded climbed in 1913, and the mountain’s runoff feeds tributaries of the Kootenay River.
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