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Mount Peary

  • 3120 m (10,237ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.2583N -117.846W
Located at the head of Clemenceau Creek, 1 km northwest of Mount Amundsen

Province: BC
Headwater: Athabasca
Ascent Date: 1927
Ascent Party: J. De Laittre, Alfred Ostheimer
Ascent Guide: Hans Fuhrer
Year Named: 1923
Named by: Schwab
Named for: Peary, Robert Edwin (Robert Peary was an American naval officer who engaged in considerable Arctic exploration. In 1909 he claimed to have reached the North Pole but this has been disputed.)