Mount Ulysses | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,024 m (9,921 ft) [1] [2] |
Prominence | 2,289 m (7,510 ft) [1] [3] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 57°20′47″N 124°5′34″W / 57.34639°N 124.09278°W [4] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Province | British Columbia |
District | Peace River Land District |
Parent range | Muskwa Ranges |
Topo map | NTS 94F8 Cyclops Peak [4] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | August 16, 1961 [5] |
Mount Ulysses, is the highest mountain in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It and neighbouring peaks are part of a group of names drawing on the epic poem The Odyssey, in which here Ulysses wanders for 10 years before being able to return home to Ithaca. [5]
Located north of the headwaters of the Akie River and to the south of Sikanni Chief Lake, [5] its very high prominence of 2,289 m (7,510 ft) is relative to Grand Pacific Pass, with its parent peak being an unnamed summit in the Fairweather Range, near Mount Fairweather. [1]
It was first climbed in 1961. [5]