They were named "Fairy Tale Mountains" (Danish: Eventyrfjelde) by the 1952–54 British North Greenland expedition after the fact that the area where they lie remained obscure and mysterious.

The expedition had carried out a very detailed survey of the northern part of Queen Louise Land, but left the southern end practically unexplored.

[2] In May-June 2007 an expedition led by Russ Hore with Gerwyn Lloyd and Tim Radford climbed some of the peaks and to a number of them they gave Welsh names.

To the east flows the L. Bistrup Brae glacier and to the west lies the vast, empty Greenland ice sheet.

[1] This mountain is marked as a 6,700-foot-high (2,042 m) peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.