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Mount Wheeler is a remote, heavily glaciated summit in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, in the Selkirk Mountains. At 3,336 metres, it ranks as the park’s third-highest peak and the Selkirks’ sixth-highest, enclosed by the Deville Glacier, Deville Névé, Black Glacier, and Thor Glacier. Runoff from snowfall, glacier melt, and precipitation drains into tributaries of the Incomappleux and Beaver rivers. First climbed in 1902 by Arthur Oliver Wheeler and Fredrich Michel, the mountain was named in 1904 for Wheeler, a Dominion Land Surveyor who later helped found and lead the Alpine Club of Canada. Its name was officially adopted in 1932.
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