Mount Kitchener | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,505 m (11,499 ft) [1] [2] |
Prominence | 280 m (920 ft) [3] |
Listing | Mountains of Alberta |
Coordinates | 52°12′58″N117°19′15″W / 52.21611°N 117.32083°W [4] |
Geography | |
Interactive map of Mount Kitchener | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Alberta |
Parent range | Winston Churchill Range |
Topo map | NTS 83C3 Columbia Icefield [4] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1927 by Alfred J. Ostheimer, guided by Hans Fuhrer [1] |
Easiest route | rock/snow climb |
Mount Kitchener is a mountain located within the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park, which is part of the Canadian Rockies. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (highway 93) near Sunwapta Pass.
Mt. Kitchener was originally named Mount Douglas by J. Norman Collie after David Douglas. In 1916, the mountain was renamed Mount Kitchener, its present-day name, after Lord Kitchener, who had just been killed in World War I. [1]
Mount K2, elevation 3,090m, [2] was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson (former Alpine Club of Canada president), apparently to signify this as a secondary peak of Mount Kitchener. [6]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Kitchener is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. [7] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C (−4 °F) with wind chill factors below −30 °C (−22 °F).
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Stutfield Peak is a mountain in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It is located at the northern end of the Columbia Icefield, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) north-west from Mount Kitchener, in the Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies. The peak has two summits - Stutfield East and Stutfield West - and is therefore sometimes referred to as The Stutfields. The West peak is higher than the East peak by 50 m (164 ft).
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