Tower of Set

{{Short description|Landform in the Grand Canyon, Arizona}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Tower of Set

| photo = Tonto-trail.jpg

| photo_caption = Southeast aspect, from Tonto Trail

| label = Tower of Set

| label_position= bottom

| elevation_ft = 6012

| elevation_ref = {{cite web |url = https://listsofjohn.com/peak/73704 |title = Tower of Set – 6,012' AZ |website = Lists of John |access-date = December 23, 2020 }}

| prominence_ft = 432

| prominence_ref =

| isolation_mi = 1.16

| isolation_ref =

| parent_peak = Horus Temple (6,150 ft)

| country = United States

| state = Arizona

| region = Coconino

| region_type = County

| part_type = Protected area | part = Grand Canyon National Park

| range = Kaibab Plateau
Colorado Plateau

| map = Arizona#USA

| map_size = 230

| map_caption = Location in Arizona

| coordinates = {{coord|36.1211306|N|112.1780426|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=12656 |name=Tower of Set |accessdate=2020-12-23}}

| topo = USGS Grand Canyon

| rock = sandstone, siltstone, mudstone

| first_ascent = 1977

| easiest_route = {{YDS|5.1}} climbing

}}

Tower of Set is a {{convert|6,012|ft|meter|adj=mid|-elevation|abbr=off|sp=us}} summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of Arizona, US. This butte is situated four miles north of Hopi Point overlook on the canyon's South Rim, two miles southeast of Tower of Ra, and three miles south-southwest of Shiva Temple, where it towers {{convert|3,600|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the Colorado River. Tower of Set was originally named Temple of Sett in 1879 by Thomas Moran, for the Egyptian deity of war, Set, because a niche worn into its wall evoked temples in the valley of the Nile.Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, {{ISBN|9780898865332}}, page 110. Another source states it was named by George Wharton James, in keeping with Clarence Dutton's tradition of naming geographical features in the Grand Canyon after mythological deities.Randy Moore and Kara Felicia Witt, The Grand Canyon: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture, 2018, ABC-CLIO Publisher, page 211. This mountain's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. In 1919, Harriet Williams Russell Strong proposed connecting Hopi Point and Tower of Set across the river via an aerial tramway, an idea that never came to fruition.Fodor's Arizona & the Grand Canyon, 2007, {{ISBN|9781400017065}}, page 145. The first ascent was made in November 1977 by Bruce Grubbs and Jim Haggart. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Tower of Set is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone.{{cite journal| author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 |page=1633 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |s2cid=9654551 | issn = 1027-5606|doi-access=free }}