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Mount Lyautey, a 3,045-metre peak in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, stands near the Continental Divide and is easily recognized from Upper Kananaskis Lake and Highway 40. Named in 1918 for French Army officer Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey and officially adopted in 1924, it was first recorded as climbed in 1930 by Kate Gardiner and Walter Feuz. The mountain is formed mainly of limestone and other sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its northern slopes hold the Lyautey Glacier, and its runoff feeds tributaries of the Kananaskis River.
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