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Cirrus Mountain is a 3,270-metre peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, rising steeply above the Icefields Parkway in the upper North Saskatchewan River valley along the boundary of Banff National Park and the White Goat Wilderness Area. Officially named in 1935 after an earlier rejected proposal, it was first recorded as climbed in 1939 by C.B. Sissons and H.J. Sissons. Formed from sedimentary rock deposited from Precambrian to Jurassic times and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain is heavily glaciated on its eastern side. Its west face is renowned for winter ice climbing, especially at the Weeping Wall.
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