Mount Ishbel

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Mount Ishbel
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Mount Ishbel
Highest point
Elevation 2,908 m (9,541 ft) [1] [2]
Prominence 431 m (1,414 ft) [3]
Parent peak Mystic Peak (2,960 m) [4]
Listing Mountains of Alberta
Coordinates 51°15′56″N115°46′31″W / 51.26556°N 115.77528°W / 51.26556; -115.77528 [5]
Geography
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Mount Ishbel
Location in Alberta
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Mount Ishbel
Location in Canada
Country Canada
Province Alberta
Protected area Banff National Park
Parent range Sawback Range
Canadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82O5 Castle Mountain [5]
Climbing
First ascent 1933 J. Packer, D. Day, V. Waters, J. Farish, W. Innes, L. DeCouteur, J. Sterlling, guided by Lawrence Grassi [1]

Mount Ishbel is a mountain peak in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada. The peak is located in the Sawback Range in Alberta's Rockies, [1] [3] north of the Bow Valley Parkway and east of Johnston Canyon.

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It was named in 1956 after Ishbel MacDonald, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. It gives the name to the Ishbel Group, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The peak is the subject of Group of Seven member Lawren Harris's painting Mountain Forms. [6]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Ishbel is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [7] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.

Geology

Like other mountains in Banff Park, the mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. [8]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mount Ishbel". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  2. ↑ "Topographic map of Mount Ishbel". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  3. 1 2 "Mount Ishbel". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  4. ↑ "Mount Ishbel, Peakvisor.com" . Retrieved October 23, 2022.
  5. 1 2 "Mount Ishbel". Geographical Names Data Base . Natural Resources Canada . Retrieved 2023-08-04.
  6. ↑ "'Once in a lifetime' painting by Group of Seven founder headed to the auction block" . Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  7. ↑ Peel, M.C.; Finlayson, B.L. & McMahon, T.A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences . 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2025-11-07.
  8. ↑ Gadd, Ben (2008), Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias
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