[4] The true summit is 1.3 mile west of the 5,300+ foot subsidiary east peak on this five-mile-long northwest-to-southeast trending mountain.

However, that same year the Seward Chamber of Commerce submitted a request that the mountain be named after Andrew Adrian Simons (1882–1962), an early settler and big-game hunting guide who in his 27 years as a member of the Alaska Game Commission worked to help conserve and publicize the game resources of Alaska.

Andrew Simons was born in Närpes, Finland, on August 10, 1882, and arrived in the Alaska area in the early 1900s as a prospector, then Seward around 1908.

The story of his career was told in magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Field & Stream, and Holiday.

[6] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Kenai Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.