Mount Afton is a mountain summit located in
Glacier National Park in the
Selkirk Mountains
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of
British Columbia
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,
Canada
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. It is situated near the north end of Asulkan Ridge, south of
Rogers Pass, northeast of
Revelstoke, and west of
Golden.
The
first ascent
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of the mountain was made in 1893 by Herbert Lambert, Miss MacLeod, Harold A. Perley, William H. Rau, and William Stables via the east buttress.
[
The mountain was climbed in 1895 via the south ridge by Philip Stanley Abbot, ]Charles Ernest Fay
Professor Charles Ernest Fay (1846–1931) was an American alpinist and educator.
Biography
He was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1868 at Tufts College and became instructor in mathematics there in 1869, and professor of mod ...
, and Charles S. Thompson who named the mountain after themselves using an amalgamation of letters from their surnames, ("A"bbot "F"ay "T"homps"on").Geographical Names Board of Canada
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Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification
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, Mount Afton is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.runoff
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from the mountain drains north into the Illecillewaet River
The Illecillewaet River is a tributary of the Columbia River located in British Columbia, Canada. Fed by the Illecillewaet Glacier in Glacier National Park, the river flows approximately to the southwest,[Geography of British Columbia
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References
External links
* Weather
Mount Afton
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Selkirk Mountains
Glacier National Park (Canada)
Columbia Country
Two-thousanders of British Columbia
Kootenay Land District