Mount Wood (Yukon)
Mount Wood | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 4,842 m (15,886 ft) |
Prominence | 1,190 m (3,900 ft) |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 61°13′58″N 140°30′45″W |
Geography | |
Location | Yukon, Canada |
Parent range | Saint Elias Mountains |
Topo map | NTS 115F2 Mount Macaulay |
Climbing | |
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.