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The Steeples is a 2,843-metre mountain ridge about five kilometres long at the southern end of the Hughes Range in the Canadian Rockies of southeastern British Columbia. Rising just east of Norbury Lake Provincial Park and the Rocky Mountain Trench, it is a prominent landmark visible from the Crowsnest Highway and Cranbrook. Its nearest higher peak is Mount Fisher to the north-northwest. Thomas Blakiston of the Palliser Expedition named the ridge in August 1858, likely because its profile resembled church steeples, and the Geographical Names Board of Canada formally adopted the name in 1950. The ridge has a subarctic climate, and its runoff feeds tributaries of the Kootenay River.
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