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Mount Niles is a 2,967-metre peak in Yoho National Park's Waputik Range, rising steeply above Yoho Valley in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia. Its runoff feeds the Yoho River and Niles Creek within the Kicking Horse River system. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Charles Sproull Thompson named it in 1898 for geology professor William H. Niles, and that year D. Campbell and Charles E. Fay made the first recorded ascent. Canada officially adopted the name in 1924.
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