Mount Woolley
Mount Woolley | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,405 m (11,171 ft)[1] |
Prominence | 565 m (1,854 ft)[2] |
Listing | Mountains of Alberta |
Coordinates | 52°17′48″N 117°25′24″W / 52.29667°N 117.42333°WCoordinates: 52°17′48″N 117°25′24″W / 52.29667°N 117.42333°W[2] |
Geography | |
Mount Woolley Location in Alberta | |
Location | Alberta, Canada |
Parent range | Winston Churchill Range |
Topo map | NTS 83C6 Sunwapta Peak |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 11:20 on July 28,1925, by a Japanese team (Six Japanese men including Yūkō Maki and three men from Switzerland) |
Easiest route | rock/snow climb |
Mount Woolley is a mountain in Alberta, Canada, located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km south of Diadem Peak and is part of Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies.
History[]
The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after . Woolley, a former football player, climbed extensively with Collie during his 1898 and 1902 expeditions into the Canadian Rockies.[1]
The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita and N. Okabe. They were guided by Hans Fuhrer, H. Kohler and J. Weber.[1]
Geology[]
Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[3] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[4]
Climate[]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Woolley is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[5] Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.
See also[]
References[]
- ^ a b c "Mount Woolley". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- ^ a b "Mount Woolley". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
- ^ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
- ^ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.
- Three-thousanders of Alberta
- Winston Churchill Range
- Mountains of Jasper National Park
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