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Mount Temple, in Banff National Park's Bow River Valley, is the highest peak in the Lake Louise area and a dominant landmark along the Trans-Canada Highway. Named in 1884 by George Mercer Dawson for Sir Richard Temple, it became a landmark in Canadian climbing history when Walter D. Wilcox, Samuel E. S. Allen, and Lewis Frissell made the first ascent on August 17, 1894, the first climb of a Canadian Rockies peak above 11,000 feet. Long prized by climbers, it is also tied to tragedy, most notably the 1955 avalanche that killed seven American teenage boys on the southwest ridge during their descent.
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