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Mount Inglismaldie
Mount Inglismaldie in winter.jpg
Mount Inglismaldie in winter
Highest point
Elevation 2,964 m (9,724 ft)
Prominence 160 m (520 ft)
Geography
Mount Inglismaldie is located in Alberta
Mount Inglismaldie
Mount Inglismaldie
Location in Alberta
Mount Inglismaldie is located in Canada
Mount Inglismaldie
Mount Inglismaldie
Location in Canada
Location Alberta, Canada
Parent range Fairholme Range
Canadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82O/03
Geology
Age of rock Cambrian
Type of rock sedimentary rock
Climbing
First ascent 1933
Easiest route Scramble
Mts Inglismaldie Girouard
Mount Inglismaldie (left) and Mount Girouard (right)

Mount Inglismaldie is the second highest peak of the Fairholme Range in Banff National Park. It is located immediately west of Mount Girouard in the Bow River valley south of Lake Minnewanka.

The mountain was named in 1886 by park superintendent George A. Stewart after Inglismaldie Castle in Kincardineshire, Scotland.

The first ascent of the mountain was made in 1933 by H. Foster, J. Packer, M.C. Wylie, Betts, Dickson, W. Innes, L. DeCouteur, J. Miskow, Sadler, and Vallance with guide Lawrence Grassi.

Geology

Like other mountains in Banff National Park, Mount Inglismaldie is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Inglismaldie is located in a subarctic climate with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 C with wind chill factors below −30 C. Precipitation runoff from Mount Inglismaldie drains into Lake Minnewanka and the Bow River.

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