It is located inside Kluane National Park and Reserve in the far west of Yukon Territory in Canada.

[5] The Saint Elias Mountains are the highest in Canada, and second in North America only to the adjacent Alaska Range.

[8] The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) had been interested in exploration of the more remote areas of the Saint Elias range since 1963.

The proposal called for each team to be made up of residents of the respective area, but due to a shortage of applications, a disproportionate number of climbers came from the mountainous province of British Columbia.

The Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia teams used the Fundy base camp.

In all, nine of the expeditions were successful, despite the fact that the climbers were assessing new routes and fighting windy, wet weather.