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Cheops Mountain is a 2,581-metre peak in Glacier National Park, British Columbia, in the Hermit Range of the Selkirk Mountains near Rogers Pass. Visible from the Trans-Canada Highway, it offers broad views from its upper slopes and summit and was first climbed in 1893 by Samuel E. S. Allen and Walter D. Wilcox during early Selkirk exploration. Otto Julius Klotz named it for its resemblance to the Pyramid of Cheops, and the name was officially adopted in 1951 after earlier use as Mount Cheops. The mountain is also tied to the 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche disaster, when a slide from Avalanche Mountain killed 62 railway workers.
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