Mount Fay

Mount Fay
Mount Fay seen from Moraine Lake
Highest point
Elevation	3,235 m (10,614 ft)[1][2]
Prominence	389 m (1,276 ft)[3]
Parent peak	Mount Allen 3280 m[3]
Listing	Mountains of Alberta Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates	51°17′58″N 116°09′43″W[4]
Geography
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Interactive map of Mount Fay
Country	Canada
Provinces	Alberta and British Columbia
Protected area	Banff National Park
Parent range	Bow Range
Topo map	NTS 82N8 Lake Louise[4]
Climbing
First ascent	1904 Gertrude Benham, Christian Kaufmann[1]
Easiest route	South-West Face

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.[5]
• 1937 December 22 First winter ascent by E.R. Gibson, Doug Crosby, and Bob Hind[6]
• 1984 East Face (V/VI 5.8 WI5) FA by Barry Blanchard, David Cheesmond and Carl Tobin.[7] Repetition of the East Face and variation on the finish was done from 2–3 April 2019 by Brette Harrington, Luka Lindič and Ines Papert.[8]

Geology

Like other mountains in Banff Park, Mount Fay is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[9] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[10]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Fay is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[11] Winter temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.

Gallery

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  Mount Fay and Fay Glacier

See also

• List of peaks on the Alberta–British Columbia border

References

1. "Mount Fay". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
2. "Topographic map of Mount Fay". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-07-21.
3. "Mount Fay". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2010-02-12.
4. "Mount Fay". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2013-05-18.
5. 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. S2CID 144126888. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
6. Gibson, E.R. (June 1938). "First Winter Ascent of Mt. Fay". Canadian Alpine Journal. XXV (1937). Alpine Club of Canada: 93. Archived from the original on 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2019-08-19.
7. Blanchard, Barry (Summer 2011). "Sanctum". Alpinist. 2011 (35). Jeffersonville, VT, USA: Height of Land Publications: 68–73. ISSN 1540-725X.
8. "Harrington, Lindič and Papert Complete First Integral Ascent of Mt. Fay's East Face". Rock and Ice. Retrieved 2019-11-12.
9. 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.
10. Gadd, Ben (2008), Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias
11. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. ISSN 1027-5606.

Further reading

• Birrell, Dave (2000). 50 Roadside Panoramas in the Canadian Rockies. Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. pp. 86–87. ISBN 9780921102656.
• Isserman, Maurice (2016). Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393292527.