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Dolomite Peak is a 2,998-metre mountain in Banff National Park's Bow River valley, visible from the Icefields Parkway and distinguished by crags and colorful towers shaped by rock containing both dolomite and limestone. Named in 1897 by Charles E. Fay, Norman Collie, and Charles Thompson for its resemblance to the Italian Dolomites, the name became official in 1924. The first recorded ascent was made in 1930 by J. Monroe Thorington with guide Peter Kaufmann. Formed from ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the peak rises in a subarctic climate and drains into the Bow River.
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