Mount K2 (Alberta)

This article is about the mountain in Alberta. For the mountain in South Asia, see K2.

Mount K2
Mount K2 Location in Alberta
Highest point
Elevation	3,090 m (10,140 ft) ^[1]
Coordinates	52°13′30″N 117°17′30″W / 52.22500°N 117.29167°W / 52.22500; -117.29167Coordinates: 52°13′30″N 117°17′30″W / 52.22500°N 117.29167°W / 52.22500; -117.29167 ^[1]
Geography
Location	Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Winston Churchill Range
Topo map	NTS 83C/03
Climbing
First ascent	1938 by an ACC party guided by Christian Hasler Jr.^[1]
Easiest route	rock/snow climb

Mount K2 is a mountain located in the upper Athabasca River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km east of Mount Kitchener. The mountain was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson (former Alpine Club of Canada president), apparently to signify this as a secondary peak of Mount Kitchener, and not K2.^[1]

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Ranges

Mountains

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Glaciers

Rivers

see List of rivers of the Canadian Rockies and Category:Rivers of the Canadian Rockies

Peoples

Parks and protected areas

World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

National	Parks Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada

Provincial (AB)	Parks Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites Frank Slide

Provincial (BC)	Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika

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