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Mount Tipperary

  • 2960 m (9,712ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
50.6811N -115.413W
Located in the Albert River Valley at the head of Tipperary Creek

Province: BC
Headwater: Kootenay
Ascent Date: 1919
Ascent Party: Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Eddy, Mr. and Mrs. V.A. Fynn
Ascent Guide: Rudolph Aemmer
Year Named: 1917
Named for: HMS Tipperary was a destroyer lost during the Battle of Jutland during WW I. After being spotted by searchlights it was sunk by enemy battleships.

Captain C. J. Wintour of HMS Tipperary went down with his ship. Please see Mount Wintour.