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Mount Robson, in British Columbia’s Mount Robson Provincial Park, is the highest mountain in the Canadian Rockies and the most prominent peak in North America’s Rocky Mountain chain. Long known to Indigenous peoples, including the Secwepemc Texqa’kallt, it rises dramatically above Kinney Lake and above glaciers, Berg Lake, and the surrounding landscape. Its English name was likely given for Colin Robertson, not John Robson. Surveys in 1893 confirmed its stature, while early access remained remote and difficult. After George Kinney’s disputed 1909 claim, the first documented ascent came in 1913 under Conrad Kain. The mountain remains a formidable climb, with severe weather and a low summit success rate.
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