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Photo: Mount Rosita from the west on the Mons Icefield (Mount Forbes is two km beyond) (courtesy Rienk Lakeman)

Mount Rosita

  • 3267 m (10,720ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.8653N -116.957W
Located between Glacier River and Forbes Brook, two km west of Mount Forbes; east of the Mons Icefield, between the North Glacier and West Glacier of Mount Forbes

Province: Alberta
Park: Banff
Headwater: Saskatchewan
Ascent Date: 1940
Ascent Party: R. Bosworth, D.M. Woods and one other
Year Named: 1965
Named for: Torr, Joan Rosita (Joan Torr was an English Geographer and writer.)