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Hilda Peak is a 3,058-metre summit on the northern edge of Banff National Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, just south of Sunwapta Pass. Prominently visible from the Icefields Parkway, it is flanked by the Hilda Glacier and the Boundary Glacier, with Mount Athabasca as the nearest higher peak. First climbed and named in 1938, the mountain’s name was formally adopted in 1985. Its sedimentary rock was laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, part of the geologic history that formed the rugged Rockies. Its waters drain into the North Saskatchewan River system.
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