Mount Woolley

Mount Woolley is a mountain in Alberta, Canada, located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km south of Diadem Peak and is part of Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies.

For the New Zealand mountain, see Mount Woolley (New Zealand).

Mount Woolley
E face of Wooley
Highest point
Elevation	3,405 m (11,171 ft) [1]
Prominence	565 m (1,854 ft) [2]
Listing	Mountains of Alberta
Coordinates	52°17′48″N 117°25′24″W [2]
Geography
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Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Winston Churchill Range
Topo map	NTS 83C/06
Climbing
First ascent	11:20 on July 28,1925, by a Japanese team (Six Japanese men including Yūkō Maki and three men from Switzerland)
Easiest route	rock/snow climb

History

The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Herman Woolley. Woolley, a former football player, climbed extensively with Collie during his 1898 and 1902 expeditions into the Canadian Rockies.[1]

The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, T. Hayakawa, Y. Maki, Y. Mita and N. Okabe. They were guided by Hans Fuhrer, H. Kohler and J. Weber.[1]

Geology

Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.[3] Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.[4]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Woolley is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[5] Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.

See also

• Geography of Alberta
• List of mountains of Canada

References

1. "Mount Woolley". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
2. "Mount Woolley". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
3. Belyea, Helen R. (1960). The Story of the Mountains in Banff National Park (PDF). parkscanadahistory.com (Report). Ottawa: Geological Survey of Canada. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-10-02. Retrieved 2019-09-13.
4. Gadd, Ben (2008). Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias.
5. 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.