Mount K2

Not to be confused with K2.

Mount K2
Mount K2 Location in Alberta
Elevation	3,090 m (10,138 ft) ^[1]
Location
Location	Alberta, Canada
Range	Sir Winston Churchill Range
Coordinates	^[1]
Topo map	NTS 83C/03
Climbing
First ascent	1938 by an ACC party guided by Christian Hasler Jr.^[1]
Easiest route	rock/snow climb

Mount K2 is a mountain located in the upper Athabasca River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km east of Mount Kitchener. The mountain was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson (former Alpine Club of Canada president), apparently to signify this as a secondary peak of Mount Kitchener, and not K2.^[1]

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World Heritage Sites	Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

National	Parks: Banff Jasper Kootenay Yoho Waterton Lakes Historic Sites: Jasper House Jasper Park Information Centre Yellowhead Pass Athabasca Pass Howse Pass Kootenae House Kicking Horse Pass Skoki Ski Lodge Twin Falls Tea House Abbot Pass Refuge Cabin Cave and Basin Banff Park Museum Sulphur Mountain Cosmic Ray Station First Oil Well in Western Canada

Provincial (AB)	Parks: Bow Valley Bragg Creek Elbow-Sheep Ghost River Kananaskis Peter Lougheed Sheep River Siffleur Spray Valley White Goat Willmore Historic Sites: Frank Slide

Provincial (BC)	Akamina-Kishinena Close To The Edge Dune Za Keyih (Frog-Gataga) Elk Lakes Graham-Laurier Hamber Height of the Rockies Hole-in-the-Wall Kakwa Kikomun Creek Kwadacha Mount Assiniboine Mount Fernie Mount Robson Muncho Lake Northern Rocky Mountains Pine Le Moray Stone Mountain Muskwa-Kechika

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See also: Geography of Canada portal