The nearest peak is Mount Stanley, which is 2.26 kilometres (1.40 mi) to the west.

The ridge line of Mount Baker was first reached in January 1906 by the Austrian mountaineer Rudolf Grauer accompanied by two British missionaries, H. E. Maddox and H. W. Tegart.

In February of that year and again in April, the same rocky point was reached by an English expedition, including Alexander F. R. Wollaston, A.

[2] The highest point of Mount Baker was finally climbed in June by an expedition led by the Duke of the Abruzzi, which climbed all peaks of the other five highest mountains of the Rwenzori, .

On his June 1891 expedition into the Ruwenzori, Franz Stuhlmann observed the peak and named it either "Semper" or "Ngemwimbi".