[2] Precipitation runoff and glacier meltwater from the mountain drains to Bute Inlet via the Homathko River.

[1] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,360 meters (4,462 feet) above the Tiedemann Glacier in 1.5 kilometer (0.9 mile).

[13] Munday wrote that the peak "presents a slender, fairly symmetrical form, ...a pair of pale reddish buttresses support the twin peaks and a slanting shelf of some breadth breaks the continuity of the eastern buttress in its otherwise clean upthrust out of Tiedemann Glacier.

Combatant claims rank as a classic of mountain architecture because of its simplicity and unity in expressing aspiration.

[15] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean and travel east toward the Coast Mountains where they are forced upward by the range (orographic lift), causing them to drop their moisture in the form of rain or snowfall.