Three Sisters (Alberta)
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| height | 2936 m ( Big Sister ) | |
| location | Alberta (Canada) | |
| Mountains | Rocky mountains | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 1 '11 " N , 115 ° 20' 26" W | |
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| First ascent | 1887 by James J. McArthur | |
| particularities | Former name: Three Nuns | |
The Three Sisters (Eng. "Three sisters") are three mountain peaks in the Canadian Rocky Mountains near Canmore in Alberta , Canada . The individual names of the peaks are: Big Sister ( 2936 m , "big sister"), Middle Sister ( 2769 m , "middle sister") and Little Sister ( 2694 m , "little sister").
history
It was Albert Rogers , a nephew of Albert Bowman Rogers (discoverer of the Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains ), who named the three peaks in 1883. He said: "There was a heavy snowstorm in the night and when we woke up in the morning and looked out of the tent, I saw that every peak had a snow curtain on the north side, so I said to the boys, look at these three nuns." ( There had been quite a heavy snowstorm in the night, and when we got up in the morning and looked out of the tent I noticed each of the three peaks had a heavy veil of snow on the north side and I said to the boys, 'Look at the Three Nuns.' ). For some time, the peaks were as the "Three Nuns" ( Three Nuns known), but were later some Protestant renamed "The Three Sisters". There is evidence that the name first appeared in George Mercer Dawson's map of 1886, as he too thought it was more appropriate.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Three Sisters on Peak Finder