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Fairmont Mountain is a 2,628-metre summit in British Columbia's Stanford Range of the Kootenay Ranges within the Canadian Rockies. Near Fairmont Hot Springs, Columbia Lake, and the Columbia Valley, it stands out as a highly visible local landmark, especially from Highway 93. Its defining characteristic is its dramatic relief, rising about 1,820 metres above the Rocky Mountain Trench over only five kilometres, which gives it a steep, imposing profile above the valley. Water from its slopes drains east toward tributaries of the Kootenay River and west toward tributaries of the Columbia River. Its name came from the nearby Fairmont Hot Springs Post Office and was officially adopted in 1954.
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