| Feature Type: | Mount - Variation of Mountain: Mass of land prominently elevated above the surrounding terrain, bounded by steep slopes and rising to a summit and/or peaks. ["Mount" preceding the name usually indicates that the feature is named after a person.] |
| Status: | Official |
| Name Authority: | BC Geographical Names Office |
| Relative Location: | S of Incomappleux River in Glacier National Park, Kootenay Land District |
| Latitude-Longitude: | 51°08'58"N, 117°28'13"W at the approximate centre of this feature. |
| Datum: | WGS84 |
| NTS Map: | 82N/3 |
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Origin Notes and History:
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Adopted 29 May 1901. Also Donkin Pass and Donkin Glacier. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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Named in 1888 by Rev. W.S. Green, Alpine Club, London, after a fellow club member killed that year in the Caucasus with his Swiss Guide. First ascent credited to H.W. Topham, 1890. Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office |
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"Mounts Fox and Donkin we named in memory of the two members of the Alpine Club who, with their Swiss guides, perished in the Caucasus while we were in the Selkirks." (from 'Among the Selkirk Glaciers, Being the Account of a Rough Survey in the Rocky Mountain Regions of British Columbia' by William Spotswood Green, MacMillan & Co, London,1890, footnote p.103). Quotation from Green located and shared March 2012 by John G. Woods, researcher/Wildvoices Consulting, Revelstoke. Source: included with note |