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Avalanche Mountain, a 2,861-metre summit in Glacier National Park near Rogers Pass, is closely bound to the geography and history of avalanches in the Selkirk Mountains. Named by Major A. B. Rogers for the destructive slides descending its western slopes, it was explored early during the search for the pass, with a confirmed first ascent in 1885 by John Macoun and James M. Macoun. Its snow, ice, and runoff shape the surrounding landscape, while avalanches from Avalanche Crest have long threatened travel below. The mountain was also the source of the deadly 1910 Rogers Pass avalanche, a disaster that helped lead to construction of the Connaught Tunnel.
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