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Photo: Mount Whiterose from the north on Mount Spring-Rice (courtesy Alan Kane)

Mount Whiterose

  • 3060 m (10,040ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.9594N -117.229W
Located in the upper Lyell Creek Valley, 3 km southwest of Mount Alexandra

Province: BC
Headwater: Columbia
Ascent Date: 1918
Ascent Party: Interprovincial Boundary Commission
Year Named: 1919
Named by: Interprovincial Boundary Survey
Named for: According to the Interprovincial Boundary Surveyors, the mountain was, "so called owing to its very obvious white, snow-covered mass when seen from the valley below."