Mount Girouard

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Mount Girouard
Elevation 2,995 metres (9,826 ft)[1]
Location Flag of Alberta Alberta Flag of Canada Canada
Range Fairholme Range
Prominence 1,455 m (4,774 ft)[2]
Coordinates 51°14′15″N 115°24′05″W / 51.2375, -115.40139[1]
Topo map NTS 82O/03
First ascent 1938 by E.E. Bishop and D.R. Crosby[1][2]
Easiest route rock climb

Mount Girouard is the highest peak of the Fairholme Range in Banff National Park, Canada. Mt. Girouard is located in the Bow River valley south of Lake Minnewanka.

The mountain was named in 1904 after Sir Édouard Girouard, a railway builder in Africa during the rule of the British Empire.[1][2]

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