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Buttress Peak

  • 2752 m (9,029ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.1528N -116.378W
Located in the Moose Creek Valley; 2.6 km north-northeast of Mount Mollison; 1.6 km east of Manganese Mountain

Range: Ottertail
Province: BC
Park: Kootenay
Headwater: Kootenay
Ascent Date: 1956
Ascent Party: T.A. Mutch
Year Named: 1915
Named by: Topographical Survey
Named for: The peak is the large east buttress of the slightly higher Manganese Mountain.

Note that there is a Buttress Mountain in Jasper National Park.