Mount Emmerich is located nine miles (14 km) west-southwest of Haines in the Chilkat Range which is a subrange of the Saint Elias Mountains.

Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 5,377 feet (1,639 meters) above the Garrison Glacier in 1.5 mile (2.4 km).

The first ascent of the summit was made on August 14, 1976, by Fred Beckey, Craig Zaspell, and Jack Tackle via the southwest ridge.

[1] The mountain was named by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1897,[1] to remember one of their own, Lieutenant Charles F. Emmerich (1849–1894), who served on the schooner Hassler in Alaska in 1893.

[9] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.