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Mount Rundle is a mountain in Canada's Banff National Park overlooking the towns of Banff and Canmore, Alberta.The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain. [Notes 1] [1] [failed verification] In 1858 John Palliser renamed [1] the mountain after Reverend Robert Rundle, a Methodist invited by the Hudson's Bay Company to do missionary work in western Canada in the 1840s.
Aerial view of the Cathedral Group of the Teton Range from the southeast with South Teton, Nez Perce Peak, Middle Teton, Grand Teton, Mount Owen, Teewinot Mountain (from left to right; see the image annotations), Taggart Lake (left), and Bradley Lake (right) The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America.
Jim Bridger - Mountain man familiar with Northwest Wyoming who was the guide of the Raynolds Expedition John Colter - First person of European descent to enter Jackson Hole and see the Teton Range [ 2 ]
Jim Bridger – Mountain man familiar with Yellowstone region (1856) John Colter – First person of European descent to visit Yellowstone region; Lt.Gustavus C. Doane – U.S. Army Cavalry escort during Washburn expedition of 1870; Truman C. Everts – former U.S. Assessor for the Montana Territory, member of Washburn Expedition
Kanchenjunga is the world's third-highest mountain; it tops out less than 100 feet (30 m) shorter than K2. The Seven Second Summits collection is considered to be a more difficult mountaineering challenge than the standard Seven Summits, even if the peaks are lower. [ 82 ]
In modern mapping, a topographic map or topographic sheet is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation of relief features, usually using contour lines (connecting points of equal elevation), but historically using a variety of methods.
Blue Mountain in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania Bald Eagle State Forest in Union County, Pennsylvania. In its northern section, the Great Valley includes the Champlain Valley around Lake Champlain and the upper Richelieu River that drains it into the Saint Lawrence, the Hudson River Valley, Newburgh Valley, and Wallkill Valley, and the Kittatinny Valley, Upper Delaware River ...
George Bird Grinnell. Exploration; People. Explorers. Norman Clyde, mountaineer with many first ascents; James Willard Schultz, author, guide, responsible for naming a great many Glacier peaks, passes and lakes.