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Whistler Mountain, known in Lillooet/Ucwalmícwts as Nsqwítsu, rises in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains at the edge of Garibaldi Provincial Park and anchors the Whistler-Blackcomb ski area with neighboring Blackcomb. A main venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics, it grew from a local landmark into one of Canada’s best-known alpine destinations after its 1965 renaming from London Mountain, a change tied to the alpine marmots called whistlers. Its lift-served summit is among the province’s most visited and provides access to surrounding wilderness. The mountain also preserves a far older story in shale, andesite, and dacite formed about 100 million years ago and later uplifted into today’s landscape.
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