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Mount K2 (Alberta)

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Location
  
Alberta, Canada

Easiest route
  
rock/snow climb

Topo map
  
NTS 83C/03

Elevation
  
3,090 m

Mount K2 (Alberta)

Parent range
  
Winston Churchill Range

First ascent
  
1938 by an ACC party guided by Christian Hasler Jr.

Mount K2 is a mountain located in the upper Athabasca River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km east of Mount Kitchener. The mountain was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson (former Alpine Club of Canada president), apparently to signify this as a secondary peak of Mount Kitchener, and not K2.

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Mount K2 (Alberta) Wikipedia