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Mount Temple, Banff National Park

From Wikipedia:

 

Mt. Temple is located in the Bow River Valley between Paradise Creek and Moraine Creek and is the highest peak in the Lake Louise area. The peak dominates the western landscape along the Trans-Canada Highway from Castle Junction to Lake Louise.

 

The mountain was named by George Mercer Dawson in 1884 after Sir Richard Temple who visited the Canadian Rockies in the same year. Mt. Temple was also the first 11,000 foot peak to be climbed in the Canadian segment of the Rocky Mountains.

 

For more information:

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Temple_(Alberta)

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