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Mount Skene

  • 3060 m (10,040ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.7686N -116.859W
Located between Conway Glacier and Freshfield Glacier

Province: Alberta
Park: Banff
Headwater: Saskatchewan
Ascent Date: 1930
Ascent Party: E. Cromwell, D. Duncan, A.F. Megrew, J. Monroe Thorington
Ascent Guide: Peter Kaufmann
Year Named: 1919
Named by: D.B. Dowling (Dr. Dowling was an engineer in the Geological Survey of Canada)
Named for: Ogden, Peter Skene (Ogden was a fur trader from Quebec who joined the North West Company in 1811 and became a partner in 1820.)