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Deluge Mountain

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The mountain's name was submitted for official consideration in 1955 by mountaineer Peter Robinson (1932–2019). The landform was presumably named in 1954 by Robinson, who climbed in the area that year when his climbing party became drenched and cold while camped across the valley from this mountain.
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Sometimes the peak can be seen from Crystalline valley during a rain storm, with its summit shrouded in clouds and a waterfall pouring from its north slope. A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a flood. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted June 9, 1960, by the
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zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures in winter can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. This climate supports unnamed glaciers on the mountain's slopes.
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is significant as the summit rises 1,200 meters (3,940 feet) above the Crystalline valley in two kilometers (1.24 mile).
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Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification".
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Deluge Mountain is a 2,789-meter-elevation (9,150-foot) peak situated 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) northwest of
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Canadian Mountain Place Names: The Rockies and Columbia Mountains
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Glen W. Boles, William Lowell Putnam, Roger W. Laurilla (2006),
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from Deluge Mountain's southwest slope drains to the
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Elevation
Prominence
Listing
Mountains of British Columbia
Coordinates
50°51′00″N 117°03′00″W / 50.85000°N 117.05000°W / 50.85000; -117.05000
Deluge Mountain is located in British Columbia
Deluge Mountain is located in Canada
British Columbia, Canada
Kootenay Land District
Parent range
Purcell Mountains
Columbia Mountains
Topo map
NTS
82K14
Westfall River
Age of rock
Proterozoic
Mountain type
Fault block
summit
British Columbia
Canada
The Bugaboos
Purcell Mountains
Columbia Mountains
runoff
Duncan River

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