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Article: The mystery of the Canadian Himalayas.(David Douglas over-estimates height of mountains in Canadian Rockies)
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- Alberta History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2003
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The history of mountaineering in Canada began with a miscalculation. On 1 May 1827 a sight-impaired 28-year-old Scottish botanist named David Douglas climbed to the top of a peak in what is now Jasper National Park and recorded in his journal that its height "does not appear to be less than sixteen thousand or seventeen thousand feet above the level of the sea." He described the peak as "the highest yet known in the northern continent of America" and named it Mount Brown after his former teacher and fellow botanist, Robert Brown. Looking across at an adjoining peak, Douglas estimated it to be about the same height--five thousand metres--and he named it Mount Hooker after ...
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