Mount Mummery

Mount Mummery is a 3,331-meter (10,928-foot) glaciated double summit mountain located in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point in the Mummery Group, and fourth-highest in the Freshfield Icefield Ranges.[3] The mountain is situated 42 km (26 mi) north of Golden on the southern edge of the Freshfield Icefield, in the Blaeberry Valley, less than 4 km (2.5 mi) from the Continental Divide. The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Albert F. Mummery (1855-1895), a famous British mountaineer who perished attempting to climb Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas.[4][5] Collie named many peaks in the Canadian Rockies, and was a climbing companion who accompanied Mummery on the Nanga Parbat expedition. Around the same time, nearby Nanga Parbat Mountain was also named by Collie.[6] Mount Mummery's name was officially adopted March 31, 1924, when approved by the Geographical Names Board of Canada.[2] The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1906 by I. Tucker Burr Jr, Samuel Cabot Jr, W. Rodman Peabody, Robert Walcott, with guides Gottfried Feuz and Christian Kaufmann.[4]

Mount Mummery
Mount Mummery, east aspect
Highest point
Elevation3,331 m (10,928 ft) [1]
Prominence481 m (1,578 ft) [1]
Parent peakMount Barnard (3340 m)
Coordinates51°39′53″N 116°51′00″W [2]
Geography
Mount Mummery
Location in British Columbia
Mount Mummery
Mount Mummery (Canada)
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Parent rangeFreshfield Icefield Ranges[3]
Canadian Rockies
Topo mapNTS 82N/10
Geology
Age of rockCambrian
Type of rockSedimentary
Climbing
First ascent1906

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Mummery is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[7] Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. Precipitation runoff from the mountain and meltwater from the Mummery Glacier drains into Blaeberry River and Waitabit Creek, which are both tributaries of the Columbia River.

Albert Mummery

See also

References
  1. "Mount Mummery". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  2. "Mount Mummery". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  3. "Mount Mummery". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  4. "Mount Mummery". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2020-01-10.
  5. "Mount Mummery". BC Geographical Names.
  6. "Nanga Parbat Mountain". BC Geographical Names.
  7. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11: 1633–1644. ISSN 1027-5606.
Mt. Mummery's 3331-meter summit left, 3320-meter summit right
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.