Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mountain summit in British Columbia, Canada
Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier is the highest peak of the Cariboo Mountains, in the east-central interior of British Columbia. It belongs to the Premier Range, which lies just west of Valemount. The summit crowns the range, and the mountain was first named Mount Titan by the American mountaineer Allen Carpé.
American mountaineer Allen Carpé first named the peak Mount Titan. In 1929 it was officially renamed Mount Sir Wilfrid Laurier to honour the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, who had died in 1919. The mountain lies in the Premier Range, just west of Valemount.
The name recalls Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada's seventh prime minister, who died in 1919; the peak was renamed for him in 1929. Before that, American mountaineer Allen Carpé had called it Mount Titan. The mountain lies in the Premier Range, just west of Valemount, a group of peaks named after Canadian prime ministers.
The summit lies in the Premier Range just west of Valemount, in the Cariboo Mountains of east-central British Columbia. Access is remote and there is no road to the peak, so parties approach on foot or by air and plan for several days. Snow and glacier travel and changeable weather shape the season.
The mountain was first named Mount Titan by American mountaineer Allen Carpé before its 1929 renaming; the earlier name is not shown on current maps, so visitors reading older accounts may find the peak under that label.
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