Mount Kinch


Mount Kinch is a small knob in Range 2 Coast Land District of British Columbia, Canada. It is located between the Kingcome and Trudel glaciers in the Ha-Iltzuk Icefield northwest of the head of Knight Inlet. The Bivouac Mountain Encyclopedia gives an elevation of for Mount Kinch whereas a climber's guide published by the British Columbia Mountaineering Club gives an elevation of for the mountain. The name of the mountain was adopted on the National Topographic System map 92M on March 28, 1967.
The mountain is named after Oddrey James Kinch, a Canadian Army signalman who died on September 7, 1941, while serving with the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals during World War II. Kinch is buried in the Murrayville Cemetery of Langley, British Columbia. At the time of his death, Kinch was survived by his parents James Cleveland Kinch and Elizabeth Kinch.