Mont Richard-Foy, Mountain summit in Crozet Islands, France

Mont Richard-Foy is a volcano rising 853 m in the western sector of Île aux Cochons, the largest island of the western Crozet group; some sources give 934 m. Its summit is seasonally covered with snow. The photograph shows dark, wet, lumpy rock with white highlights along ridges and pits.

The mountain takes its name from Lieutenant Frédéric Richard-Foy, who commanded the Meurthe transport ship during a rescue mission in 1887. This naming reflects early French involvement in exploring these remote islands.

The name recalls Frédéric Richard-Foy (1849–1918), a French Navy officer who commanded La Meurthe, the ship sent in 1887 to search for survivors of the wrecked Tamaris. The peak rises in the western sector of Île aux Cochons, the largest island of the western Crozet group, and its summit carries snow for part of the year.

Access requires permits from French authorities and travel only through organized scientific expeditions to the archipelago. Visits happen rarely and depend on weather conditions in the Southern Indian Ocean.

Sources disagree on the summit's height: the English Wikipedia gives 934 m, while the French article states 853 m. The peak rises in the western sector of Île aux Cochons, the largest island of the western Crozet group, and its summit carries snow for part of the year.