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The Mitre is a 2,850-metre mountain near Lake Louise in Banff National Park, surrounded by notable peaks, glaciers, and valleys including Mount Lefroy, Mount Aberdeen, Lefroy Glacier, Mitre Glacier, and Paradise Valley. Samuel E. S. Allen named it in 1893 because its shape resembled a bishop’s mitre, and its first recorded ascent followed in 1901 by Christian Kaufmann, J. Pollinger, G. Collier, E. Tewes, and G. Bohren. Formally adopted as a place name in 1952, it is composed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic setting brings long snowy winters, mild summers, and severe cold.
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