Mount Whymper
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Mount Whymper is a 2,845-metre (9,334 ft) mountain located in the Canadian Rockies, British Columbia, Canada, in the Vermilion Pass area in Kootenay National Park. The mountain is named for its first recorded conqueror, the English alpinist, explorer, writer, and engraver, Edward Whymper.
In 1901, Whymper and his four guides (Joseph Bossoney, Christian Kaufmann, Christian Klucker, and Joseph Pollinger) are the first who are recorded to have climbed to the top of this Mount Whymper. Sponsored by Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), Whymper was exploring the area in order to promote the Canadian Rocky Mountains and the railway in his conferences.
There is another Mount Whymper in British Columbia, on Vancouver Island, in the northeastern Pacific Ocean on the southern coast of that Canadian province. It is named for Frederick Whymper, Edward's brother.
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