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Mount Fairweather is on the boundary with Alaska, with only the summit and about 1/3 of the peak's massif within British Columbia. The highest summit completely within British Columbia is Mount Waddington (4,019 m (13,186 ft), [ 14 ] 51°22′25″N 125°15′48″W / 51.37361°N 125.26333°W / 51.37361; -125.26333 ( Mount ...
Community Province Elevation (m) Population (Year) [1]; Lake Louise: Alberta: 1,600 m (5,200 ft) [2] 691 (2011) [3]: Banff: Alberta: 1,400 m (4,600 ft) [2] 7,851 ...
Mont Blanc as seen from the Chécrouit Lake, Italy. The Mont Blanc was the highest mountain of the Frankish Empire under Charlemagne and the highest mountain of the Holy Roman Empire until 1792. [b] In 1760, Swiss naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure began to go to Chamonix to observe Mont Blanc. [14]
Either sort of parent of a typical very high-prominence peak such as Denali will lie far away from the peak itself, reflecting the independence of the peak. Most sources (and the table below) define no parent for island and landmass highpoints; others treat Mount Everest as the parent of every such peak with the world ocean as the "key col".
Mont Blanc is a ski resort in the Laurentian Mountains and south of Mont-Tremblant, in Les Laurentides Regional County Municipality (MRC), in administrative region of Laurentides (region), in Quebec, Canada. [2] It is located in the municipality of Mont-Blanc, just east of Mont Tremblant.
Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest peak of Canada. The following sortable table comprises the 150 highest mountain peaks of Canada with at least 500 metres (1640 feet) of topographic prominence. [a] The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Mount Logan in the Saint Elias Mountains of Yukon is the highest summit of Canada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Canada. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [2]
There are 14 mountains over 8,000 metres (26,247 ft), which are often referred to as the Eight-thousanders. (Some people have claimed there are six more 8,000m peaks in Nepal, making for a total of 20. [1])