Mount Wood | |
Elevation M: | 4842 |
Prominence M: | 1190 |
Prominence Ref: | [1] |
Location: | Yukon, Canada |
Range: | Saint Elias Mountains |
Coordinates: | 61.2328°N -140.5125°W |
Coordinates Ref: | [2] |
First Ascent: | 1941 by Walter Wood, Anderson Blakewell and Albert Jackman |
Easiest Route: | glacier/snow/ice climb |
Mount Wood (sometimes referred to as Wood Peak) is the seventh-highest mountain in Canada and is located in Kluane National Park and Reserve. In 1900 it was named by the surveyor James J. McArthur (1856–1925) after Zachary Taylor Wood (d.1915), a North-West Mounted Police inspector in Dawson during the Klondike Gold Rush. He was later the commissioner of the NWMP.