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Mount King is a prominent 2,868-metre summit in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, visible from the Trans-Canada Highway through Kicking Horse valley and pass. Part of the Van Horne Range, it belongs to one of the oldest and most heavily eroded sections of the Canadian Rockies. Its sedimentary rock formed in shallow Cambrian seas and was later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Otto Koltz named it in 1886 for Canadian surveyor and astronomer William Frederick King. James J. McArthur made the first recorded ascent in 1892, and the name became official in 1924. Runoff from the mountain feeds tributaries of the Kicking Horse River.
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