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Mount Perren stands on the Alberta-British Columbia border along the Continental Divide in Banff National Park, forming part of the wall of peaks behind Moraine Lake in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, one of the Canadian Rockies' best-known landscapes. Officially named in 1968 for Walter Perren, a Swiss climbing guide and Parks Canada service warden, it is composed of sedimentary rock laid down in shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny that built the Rockies. With a subarctic climate of long snowy winters and mild summers, the mountain is best known today for its scenic prominence in the Moraine Lake panorama.
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