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Mount Gould, a 9,557-foot peak on the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, is the highest point of the Garden Wall and is best known for its immense east face above Grinnell Lake. Dropping about 4,000 feet in half a mile, this wall gives the mountain exceptional visual prominence and makes it one of the park’s most striking scenes. Named in 1887 by George Bird Grinnell for George H. Gould, the peak was first recorded climbed in 1920 by Frank B. Wynn, Harry R. Horn, Henry H. Goddard, and others. Its geology records ancient seas and the Lewis Overthrust, with limestone and a dark diorite sill shaping its face.
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