Mount Hungabee

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Mount Hungabee
Hungabee Mountain
View from the northeast of Mount Hungabee

View from the northeast of Mount Hungabee

height 3490  m
location Alberta , British Columbia ( Canada )
Mountains Canadian Rockies
Dominance 5.77 km →  Mount Temple
Notch height 987 m ↓  Wastach Pass (2503 m)
Coordinates 51 ° 19 '59 "  N , 116 ° 17' 3"  W Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '59 "  N , 116 ° 17' 3"  W.
Mount Hungabee, Alberta
Mount Hungabee
First ascent 1903

The Mount Hungabee officially mapped as Hungabee Mountain is a 3,490  m high mountain in the Bow Range in the Canadian Rockies .

It lies on the boundaries of Banff National Park and Yoho National Park on the North American continental divide at the end of Paradise Valley. It was named after the word used in the language of the Nakoda Indians for chief, as its summit towers over the surrounding area.

It was first climbed in 1903 by Herschel Clifford Parker and his mountain guides Hans Kaufmann and Christian Kaufmann .

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