Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,440 meters (4,724 feet) above Isosceles Creek in 4 kilometers (2.5 miles).

The peak is named after Frank Edward Carr (1886–1915), Vancouver post office clerk and British Columbia Mountaineering Club executive member, who served with the 7th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Forces, in Canada, England and France during World War I.

[5] He was killed in action April 26, 1915, in France and is commemorated at the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in Belgium.

Carr, which at the time was known as Copper Peak, was made in 1911 by a large BC Mountaineering Club party including Don Munday.

[8] 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.