The President
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The President | |
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Left to right, The Vice President, President glacier and President |
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Elevation | 3123m (10,246 feet) |
Location | British Columbia, Canada |
Range | Canadian Rockies |
Prominence | 658m above Kiwetinok Pass |
Coordinates | |
Topo map | NTS 82N/10 |
First ascent | 1901 by James Outram, Christian Kaufmann and J. Pollinger |
Easiest route | scramble |
The President is a peak on the The President/Vice-President Massif, just North of Emerald Lake in Yoho National Park, near the Alpine Club of Canada's Stanley Mitchell hut.
The President was named Shaugnessy in 1904 by Edward Whymper after Thomas Shaugnessy, the president of the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1907, the mountain was renamed by the Alpine Club of Canada, after it was discovered that the name had already been used on a mountain in the Selkirks.
[edit] Routes
There appears to be only one route up the President -- up the President glacier to the col, then scramble up talus to the peak.