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Mount Albreda is a 3,052-metre peak in British Columbia’s Monashee Mountains and the range’s fifth-highest summit. Rising steeply above Dominion Creek and visible from Highway 5, it is a distinctive landmark east of the Albreda River, with northern glaciers shaped by a local subarctic climate. Runoff and glacier melt drain into tributaries of the Albreda River. Its name arose through an unusual chain of events: the river was named in 1863 for Lady Albreda Elizabeth Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, while the mountain was first called Mount Milton for Viscount Milton before a mapmaking error attached the river’s name to the peak. The name was officially adopted in 1965, and the first documented ascent came in 1924.
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