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Mount Whymper is a 2,845-metre peak in the Vermilion Pass area of Kootenay National Park in British Columbia's Canadian Rockies, set in a subarctic high-mountain environment of severe winters and milder summers. Named for English alpinist Edward Whymper, it was first recorded climbed by him in 1901 with guides Joseph Bossoney, Christian Kaufmann, Christian Klucker, and Joseph Pollinger during a Canadian Pacific Railway-backed expedition promoting the Rockies. The mountain is formed from sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then folded and uplifted when older rocks were thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny.
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