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Redtop Mountain is a 3,156-metre summit in British Columbia's Purcell Mountains, on the northern boundary of Purcell Wilderness Conservancy Provincial Park and Protected Area. Near Mount Earl Grey, Truce Mountain, and Jumbo Mountain, it drains into both the Duncan River system and tributaries of Toby Creek in the Columbia watershed. Its subarctic setting brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and temperatures that can drop below minus 20 degrees Celsius, with even lower wind chills. The first recorded ascent came on August 11, 1916, by Albert H. MacCarthy, Elizabeth MacCarthy, and Conrad Kain, and the mountain's name was officially adopted in 1960.
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