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Rearguard Mountain is a 2,744-metre summit in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, in the Rainbow Range of the Canadian Rockies. Standing between Berg Lake and the Robson Glacier, it was shown on Arthur O. Wheeler’s 1911 topographic map of Mount Robson, and its first recorded ascent was made in 1913 by an Alpine Club of Canada party. Its present name, chosen in 1922 and officially adopted in 1923, reflects how the peak appears behind Mount Robson to approaching travelers. Formed from sedimentary rock ranging from Precambrian to Jurassic age, it rises in a subarctic climate, with runoff draining into the Robson River.
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