Mount Cordonnier | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,012 m (9,882 ft) [1] |
Prominence | 177 m (581 ft) [2] |
Parent peak | Mount Mangin (3065 m) [2] |
Listing | |
Coordinates | 50°32′59″N115°13′56″W / 50.54972°N 115.23222°W [3] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Provinces | Alberta and British Columbia |
Topo map | NTS 82J11 Kananaskis Lakes [3] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1930 Kate Gardiner, guided by Walter Fuez [4] [1] |
Easiest route | Scramble routes [5] |
Mount Cordonnier is located north of Mount Joffre in Height of the Rockies Provincial Park and straddles the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border. [6] It was named in 1918 after General Victor Louis Emilien Cordonnier. [5] [1] [2]
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Mount O'Beirne is a mountain in the Continental Ranges on the border of Alberta and British Columbia. It is Alberta's 59th most prominent mountain. It was named in 1918 by Arthur Oliver Wheeler after Eugene Francis O'Beirne, a "sponger and general pest" who in 1864 had attached himself to William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton and Walter Butler Cheadle's expedition over the Yellowhead Pass.
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