Mount Joffre

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Mount Joffre
Elevation 3,450 metres (11,319 feet)
Location Alberta-B.C., Canada
Range Canadian Rockies
Coordinates 50°31′40″N, 115°12′30″W
Topo map NTS 82J/11
First ascent 1919 by Joseph Hickson, guided by Edward Feuz jr.
Easiest route rock/snow climb

Mount Joffre is a mountain located on the Continental Divide, in the extreme southern tip of Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. The mountain was named in 1918 by the Interprovincial Boundary Survey after Marshal Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, a French army commander during WW I.

The normal climbing route (UIAA class III) is via the north-east ridge up the north face, which is covered by the Mangin Glacier.

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