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Mount Evan-Thomas, the highest summit in Alberta’s Opal Range, rises in the Kananaskis River Valley within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Named for Rear Admiral Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas of the Grand Fleet at Jutland, it was first approved in 1922 under a slightly different spelling before its present form became official in 1972. Its first recorded ascent was made in 1954 by M.S. Hicks, W. Lemmon, G. Ross, I. Spreat, and J.F. Tarrant. Formed from ancient sedimentary rock and reshaped during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain shows the steeply tilted strata characteristic of the Opal Range and drains into tributaries of the Kananaskis River.
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