Mount Woolley

Coordinates: 52°17′50″N 117°25′31″W / 52.29722°N 117.42528°W / 52.29722; -117.42528
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Mount Woolley
E face of Wooley
Highest point
Elevation3,405 m (11,171 ft)[1][2]
Prominence565 m (1,854 ft)[3]
Parent peakMount Alberta (3619 m)
ListingMountains of Alberta
Coordinates52°17′50″N 117°25′31″W / 52.29722°N 117.42528°W / 52.29722; -117.42528[4]
Geography
Mount Woolley is located in Alberta
Mount Woolley
Mount Woolley
Location in Alberta
Mount Woolley is located in Canada
Mount Woolley
Mount Woolley
Mount Woolley (Canada)
CountryCanada
ProvinceAlberta
Protected areaJasper National Park
Parent rangeWinston Churchill Range
Topo mapNTS 83C6 Sunwapta Peak[4]
Climbing
First ascentJuly 28,1925, by a Japanese team (Six Japanese men including Yūkō Maki and three men from Switzerland)
Easiest routerock/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.

History[edit]

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]

Geology[edit]

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]

Climate[edit]

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.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Mount Woolley". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
  2. ^ "Topographic map of Mount Woolley". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  3. ^ "Mount Woolley". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
  4. ^ a b "Mount Woolley". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
  5. ^ Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
  6. ^ Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
  7. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L. & McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.