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Younghusband Ridge

  • 3150 m (10,335ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
52.2333N -117.817W
Located on the continental divide between the Chaba Icefield and Apex Glacier

Province: Alberta/BC
Park: Jasper
Headwater: Athabasca/Columbia
Ascent Date: 1927
Ascent Party: Alfred Ostheimer
Ascent Guide: Hans Fuhrer
Year Named: 1927
Named by: Alfred Ostheimer
Named for: Younghusband, Lt. Col. Sir Francis Edward (A British climber, Lt. Col. Younghusband led a military expedition to Lhasa in 1906.)

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer who visited Manchuria in 1886. The following year he travelled from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (5791 m) in the Karakorum Range. In 1904, he was sent to India with a military expedition and entered Tibet, where he forced a treaty upon the Dalai Lama, opening Tibet to Western trade. Later he surveyed the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers and the upper reaches of the Indus. He made three attempts to climb Mount Everest. He authored "Heart of a Continent" in 1898, "India and Tibet" in 1912, and "Everest: the Challenge" in 1936.