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Mount Forbes

Mount Forbes is located 18 km southwest of Saskatchewan River Crossing in Banff National Park. The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Edward Forbes, Hector's natural history professor at the University of Edinburgh during the mid-nineteenth century.

Elevation:3,612 meters / 11,851 feet
Latitude: 51° 51′ 35″ N
Longitude:116° 55′ 50″ W
Range: Canadian Rockies
Topo map: 82N/15 Mistaya Lake
First ascent:1902 by J. Norman Collie, James Outram, H.E.M. Stutfield, G.M. Weed, H. Woolley, guided by Christian Kaufmann.
Routes: West Ridge (Normal Route) III; North-West Face Variation III; West Ridge of Rosita III 5.3

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