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Mount Ishbel
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Mount Ishbel
Highest point
Elevation 2,908 m (9,541 ft)
Prominence 431 m (1,414 ft)
Geography
Mount Ishbel is located in Alberta
Mount Ishbel
Mount Ishbel
Location in Alberta
Mount Ishbel is located in Canada
Mount Ishbel
Mount Ishbel
Location in Canada
Location Banff National Park
Alberta, Canada
Parent range Sawback Range
Canadian Rockies
Topo map NTS 82O/05
Climbing
First ascent 1933 J. Packer, D. Day, V. Waters, J. Farish, W. Innes, L DeCouteur, J. Sterlling guided by Lawrence Grassi

Mount Ishbel is a mountain peak in Banff National Park of Alberta, Canada. The peak is located in the Sawback Range in Alberta's Rockies, north of the Bow Valley Parkway and east of Johnston Canyon.

It was named in 1956 after Ishbel MacDonald, the eldest daughter of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain. It gives the name to the Ishbel Group, a stratigraphical unit of the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The peak is the subject of Group of Seven member Lawren Harris's painting Mountain Forms.

Climate

Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Ishbel is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C.

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Mount Ishbel

Geology

Like other mountains in Banff Park, the mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

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