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Mount Lefroy stands on the Continental Divide at the Alberta-British Columbia border beside Abbot Pass, between Lake Louise and Lake O’Hara. Named in 1858 by James Hector for astronomer Sir John Henry Lefroy, it is formed of Cambrian sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. The mountain became a significant site in Canadian climbing history after Philip Stanley Abbot died there in 1896 during an unsuccessful summit attempt, the country’s first fatal accident in modern mountaineering. A successful ascent followed in 1897 by a larger party, and the peak also became a subject in Canadian art through a notable painting by Lawren Harris.
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