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Mount Begbie is a 2,733-metre peak in British Columbia’s Gold Range of the Monashee Mountains, rising above Upper Arrow Lake west of the Columbia River and standing as a familiar landmark around Revelstoke. Named for colonial judge Sir Matthew Baillie Begbie, the mountain’s name was in use by 1887 and officially adopted in 1932. Its first recorded ascent was made on June 11, 1907, by James Robert Robertson, J. Herdman, Rupert W. Haggen, and guide Edward Feuz Jr. Though moderate in height for the region, it has a subarctic climate, supports a glacier, and is formed of quartzite, gneiss, schist, and other metamorphosed sedimentary rocks.
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