Photo: Looking southeast to Mount Lapensee (the peak at centre-right) and Mount Belanger (beyond at centre) from the Whirlpool Valley (courtesy Don Beers)
Mount Belanger
- 3120 m (10,237ft)
- First Ascent
- Naming History
52.5114N -117.923W
Located between the headwaters of Fryatt Creek and Divergence Creek
Province: Alberta
Park: Jasper
Headwater: Athabasca
Located between the headwaters of Fryatt Creek and Divergence Creek
Province: Alberta
Park: Jasper
Headwater: Athabasca
Ascent Date: 1930
Ascent Party: W.R. Hainsworth, J.F. Lehmann, M.M. Strumia, N.D. Waffl
Ascent Party: W.R. Hainsworth, J.F. Lehmann, M.M. Strumia, N.D. Waffl
Year Named: 1921
Named by: D.B. Dowling (Dr. Dowling was an engineer in the Geological Survey of Canada)
Named for: Belanger, Andre (Andre Belanger, G. Franchere, and Oliver Lapensee were part of a group that crossed Athabasca Pass in 1814. Belanger and Lapensee drowned in the Athabasca River below Brule Lake.)
Named by: D.B. Dowling (Dr. Dowling was an engineer in the Geological Survey of Canada)
Named for: Belanger, Andre (Andre Belanger, G. Franchere, and Oliver Lapensee were part of a group that crossed Athabasca Pass in 1814. Belanger and Lapensee drowned in the Athabasca River below Brule Lake.)
Andre Belanger, Gabriel Franchere, and Olivier Lapensee were part of a group that crossed Athabasca Pass in 1814. Belanger and Lapensee drowned in the Athabasca River below Brule Lake. Please see Franchere Peak and Mount Lapensee. Gabriel Franchere kept a journal and published a book about his time in the fur trade, including the 1814 crossing of Athabasca Pass when Lapensee and Belanger) drowned.