Mount Girouard

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Name=Mount Girouard
Elevation 2,995 metres (9,872 feet)
Location Alberta, Canada
Range Fairholme Range
Coordinates 51°14′15″N, 115°24′05″W
Topo map NTS 82O/03
First ascent 1938 by E.E. Bishop and D.R. Crosby
Easiest route rock climb

Mount Girouard is the highest peak of the Fairholme Range in Banff National Park. Mt. Girouard is located in the Bow River valley south of Lake Minnewanka. The mountain was named in 1904 after Sir Edward Percy Girouard, a railway builder in Africa during the rule of the British Empire.

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