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Mount Vaux is a 3,310-metre peak in Yoho National Park above the Kicking Horse River valley in British Columbia’s Ottertail Range, prominent from the Trans-Canada Highway and Emerald Lake. Named in 1858 by James Hector for William Sandys Wright Vaux, the mountain became an officially adopted place name in 1924. Its first recorded ascent came in 1901 by Charles E. Fay, James Outram, and J. Henry Scattergood with guide Christian Hasler Sr. Made of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it stands in a subarctic alpine setting whose runoff drains to the Kicking Horse River.
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