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Isolated Peak is a 2,845-metre mountain in Yoho National Park in British Columbia, rising sharply above the Yoho River drainage in the Waputik Mountains of the Canadian Rockies. More notable than its absolute height is its abrupt relief, climbing about 700 metres above Twin Falls Creek in 1 kilometre and about 800 metres above the Little Yoho River in 2.5 kilometres. First climbed in 1901 by Edward Whymper, James Outram, and their guides, it was named for its former appearance as an isolated nunatak in a glacier. Its sedimentary rock was formed in ancient shallow seas and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.
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