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Photo: Looking northwest to Mount Woolley (left) and Diadem Peak from Parker Ridge

Mount Woolley

  • 3405 m (11,171ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.2469N -117.425W
Located in the Sunwapta River Valley, 1.5 km south of Diadem Peak

Range: Winston Churchill
Province: Alberta
Park: Jasper
Headwater: Athabasca
Visible from Highway: 93N
Ascent Date: 1925
Ascent Party: S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y.Mita, N. Okabe
Ascent Guide: Hans Fuhrer, H. Kohler, J. Weber
Year Named: 1898
Named by: J. Norman Collie
Named for: Woolley, Hermann (Hermann Woolley climbed extensively with Norman Collie.) (see biog.)

The first ascent of Mount Woolley was completed by the Japanese Alpine Club's party's four days after their first ascent of Mount Alberta. A successful book publisher, Herman Woolley was an accomplished football player and boxer who did not take up mountaineering in earnest until he was forty. After a brief apprenticeship in the Alps, he went to the Caucasus and made several first ascents. He served as a president of the Alpine Club. He joined Hugh Stutfield and Norman Collie for their 1898 and 1902 expeditions in the Canadian Rockies.

Photo: Looking south to Mount Woolley (courtesy Paul Russell)

Mount Woolley from the Icefields Parkway

Looking northwest to (l-r) Mount Woolley, Diadem Peak, and Mushroom Peak from the Icefields Parkway

Looking northwest to Mount Woolley (left) and Diadem Peak from Nigel Peak (courtesy Sonny Bou)