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Mount Owen is a 3,083-metre peak in Yoho National Park in British Columbia’s Canadian Rockies, rising above the Ottertail River Valley with unusually dramatic local relief. Though not one of the region’s highest summits, it climbs about 1,700 metres above the valley in just 3 kilometres, giving it a striking presence. First climbed in 1892 by Canadian surveyor James J. McArthur, it was named for Frank Owen of his survey party, and the official name was adopted on March 31, 1924. Formed from ancient sedimentary rocks later uplifted during the Laramide orogeny, it stands in a cold subarctic setting with a small glacier on its north slope.
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