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Mount Torment is a peak in Washington’s North Cascades, rising more than 8,120 feet in one of the range’s most rugged alpine landscapes of sharp ridges, spires, and deep glacial valleys. First climbed on August 23, 1946, it received its unusual name from that party’s account of a hot, thirst-ridden ascent. The mountain later became especially notable among climbers for the exposed Torment-Forbidden Traverse linking it to Forbidden Peak. Below, the North Fork Cascade River begins in a basin and flows west through a waterfall-filled valley. Its terrain and climate reflect Pacific moisture, heavy wet snow, avalanche danger, and long geologic shaping through uplift, faulting, and Pleistocene glaciation.
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