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Mount Hector is a 3,394-metre peak in Banff National Park's Bow River valley, beside the Icefields Parkway north of Lake Louise. Named in 1884 by George M. Dawson for geologist James Hector of the Palliser expedition, it was first recorded as climbed in 1895 by Philip S. Abbot, Charles Fay, and Charles S. Thompson. The mountain is made of sedimentary rock deposited in shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its upper slopes are Cathedral limestone and dolostone, its lower slopes Gog Group quartzite, and its subarctic climate brings severe winter cold and snow.
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