| Mount Stephen | |
|---|---|
 Mount Stephen towers over the Kicking Horse Valley | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3,199 m (10,495 ft)[1][2] |
| Prominence | 989 m (3,245 ft)[1] |
| Listing | Mountains of British Columbia |
| Coordinates | 51°23′57″N 116°26′11″W / 51.39917°N 116.43639°W[3] |
| Geography | |
  Mount Stephen  Mount Stephen Mount Stephen (Canada) | |
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| Interactive map of Mount Stephen | |
| District | Kootenay Land District |
| Parent range | Park Ranges ← Canadian Rockies |
| Topo map | NTS 82N8 Lake Louise[3] |
| Geology | |
| Rock age | Cambrian |
| Rock type | Sedimentary rock |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1887 by James J. McArthur, T. Riley |
| Easiest route | Scramble (difficult)[4] |
Mount Stephen, 3,199 m (10,495 ft), is a mountain located in the Kicking Horse River Valley of Yoho National Park, 1⁄2 km east of Field, British Columbia, Canada. The mountain was named in 1886 for George Stephen, the first president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.[1][5] The mountain is mainly composed of shales and dolomites from the Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago. The Stephen Formation, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin was first described at the mountain and was named for it. Stephen has a subpeak known as Stephen SE1, at the end of a 1 km ridge, 132° from the main peak, visible from Lake O'Hara.
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