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Mount Whiteaves

  • 3150 m (10,335ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.7239N -116.799W
Located on the continental divide to the east of the Freshfield Icefield; south of Lambe Glacier

Province: Alberta/BC
Park: Banff
Headwater: Saskatchewan/Columbia
Ascent Date: 1949
Ascent Party: J. Bishop, D. Greenwell, E.R. LaChapelle, D.M. Woods
Year Named: 1920
Named for: Whiteaves, Joseph Frederick (A British born paleontologist, Joseph Whiteaves became curator of the Montreal Natural History Society and was later appointed to the staff of the Geological Survey of Canada.)