Mount Kitchener

Mount Kitchener
Mount Kitchener
	Mt. Kitchener at dawn from the Icefields Parkway
Highest point
Elevation	3,505 m (11,499 ft) [1]
Prominence	280 m (920 ft) [2]
Coordinates	52°13′03″N 117°19′12″W [2]
Geography
	Mount Kitchener Alberta, Canada
Parent range	Winston Churchill Range
Topo map	NTS 83C/03 Columbia Icefield
Climbing
First ascent	1927 by Alfred J. Ostheimer, guided by Hans Fuhrer
Easiest route	rock/snow climb

Mount Kitchener is a mountain located within the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park, which is part of the Canadian Rockies. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (highway 93) near Sunwapta Pass.

Mt. Kitchener was originally named Mount Douglas by J. Norman Collie after David Douglas. In 1916, the mountain was renamed Mount Kitchener, its present-day name, after Lord Kitchener, who had just been killed in World War I.[1]

Routes

SouthWest Slopes (Normal Route) I
Grand Central Couloir V 5.9
Ramp Route V 5.8

Notable ascents

1975 Grand Central Couloir (V 5.9 WI5 1050m) by Jeff Lowe and Michael Weis (August 1975)[3]

Mount K2

View of Mt. Kitchener and Mount K2

Views from Mt. Kitchener's summit are great

Mount K2, elevation 3,090m, was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson (former Alpine Club of Canada president), apparently to signify this as a secondary peak of Mount Kitchener.[4]

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Kitchener is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.[5] Temperatures can drop below −20 degrees Celsius (−4 degrees Fahrenheit) with wind chill factors below −30 °C (−22 °F).

References

"Mount Kitchener". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2007-08-31.
"Mount Kitchener". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-05-17.
Lowe, Jeff (1976). "The Cold Dance Review". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 20 (50): 326–333.
Mount K2 PeakFinder
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.

External links

Mt. Kitchener on Peakware
Mount Kitchener in the Canadian Mountain Encyclopedia.
Parks Canada web site: Jasper National Park

Gallery

Mount Kitchener's north face
Mt Kitchener Summit from Snow Dome
View to N. from Mt. Kitchener

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[peakfinder-1] "Mount Kitchener". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2007-08-31.

[bivouac-2] "Mount Kitchener". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2013-05-17.

[3] Lowe, Jeff (1976). "The Cold Dance Review". American Alpine Journal. New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club. 20 (50): 326–333.

[peakfinderK2-4] Mount K2 PeakFinder

[Peel-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.