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Mount Fay stands on the Continental Divide at the Alberta–British Columbia border, forming part of the striking setting of Moraine Lake in Banff National Park’s Valley of the Ten Peaks. Named in 1902 for early Canadian Rockies explorer Charles E. Fay, it is tied to the region’s climbing history through his 1896 Mount Lefroy expedition, remembered for the first mountaineering fatality in the Canadian Rockies. Fay himself did not first summit the peak; Gertrude Benham did in 1904. Later milestones included the first winter ascent in 1937 and the first East Face ascent in 1984, helping secure Mount Fay’s place as both a landmark and climbing objective.
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