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Mount Lougheed is a prominent 3,107-metre peak in Alberta’s Kananaskis Country, rising between Spray Lakes Reservoir and the Wind Valley and distinguished by three separate summits. Visible from Highway 1 east of Canmore, it was originally called Wind Mountain before being renamed in 1928 for Sir James Lougheed, a lawyer, politician, senator, and cabinet minister. Its first recorded ascent came in 1889 by A. St. Cyr, W.S. Drewry, and Tom Wilson. Formed from Palliser limestone laid down in ancient shallow seas and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain also drains into the Bow River system and figures in modern regional history through the Rescue 807 Crashes.
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