Mount Woolley | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,405 m (11,171 ft)[1][2] |
Prominence | 565 m (1,854 ft)[3] |
Parent peak | Mount Alberta (3619 m) |
Listing | Mountains of Alberta |
Coordinates | 52°17′50″N 117°25′31″W / 52.29722°N 117.42528°W[4] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Alberta |
Protected area | Jasper National Park |
Parent range | Winston Churchill Range |
Topo map | NTS 83C6 Sunwapta Peak[4] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 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.
The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Herman Woolley. 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]
Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[5] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[6]
Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Woolley 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.