{{short description|Mountain in British Columbia, Canada}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Goodsir | image = Goodsir Towers.jpg | image_caption = | elevation_m = 3567 | elevation_ref = <ref name="peaklist">{{cite web|url=http://peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/canada/british_columbia.html |title=British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page|publisher=Peaklist.org|access-date=2012-12-25}}</ref> | prominence_m = 1887 | prominence_ref = <ref name="peaklist"/> | range = Ottertail Range | parent_peak = Mount Assiniboine (3616&nbsp;m)<ref name="bivouac"/> | listing = {{unbulleted list |Mountains of British Columbia |Canada highest major peaks 36th |Canada most prominent peak 47th}} | country = Canada | region_type = Province | region = British Columbia | district = Kootenay Land District | part_type = Park | part = Yoho National Park | map = Canada British Columbia | map_caption = Location in southeastern British Columbia | label_position = left | coordinates = {{coord|51|12|06|N|116|23|48|W|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name="bivouac">{{cite bivouac|id=1630|name=Mount Goodsir|access-date=2021-05-12}}</ref> | topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|82|N|1}} | first_ascent = 16 July 1903<br/>Charles E. Fay and Herschel C. Parker, guided by Christian Häsler and Christian Kaufmann<ref name="bivouac"/><ref name="north_first_ascent">{{cite crdb |id=567 |name=Goodsir Towers (North Tower) |accessdate=2019-08-20}} This site lists the first ascent of the lower North Tower as 1909 by A. Eggers, J.P. Forde, P.D. McTavish, guided by Edward Feuz Sr.</ref> | easiest_route = Southwest ridge of South Tower: hike/climb (Grade III, YDS 5.4)<ref name="dougherty"/> }}

'''Mount Goodsir''' (or the '''Goodsir Towers''') is the highest mountain in the Ottertail Range, a subrange of the Park Ranges in British Columbia. It is located in Yoho National Park, near its border with Kootenay National Park. The mountain has two major summits, the South Tower (the higher summit) and the North Tower, {{convert|3525|m|ft|0}}.<ref name=otm>{{cite opentopomap|Goodsir North Tower|51.21086|-116.41517|2024-10-17}}</ref>

The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after two brothers, John Goodsir, a professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, and Harry Goodsir, a surgeon on the ship HMS Erebus.<ref name="bivouac"/><ref name=bcgnis>{{cite bcgnis|id=10324|name=Mount Goodsir|access-date=2021-05-12}}</ref>

The standard route on the South Tower is the southwest ridge, a straightforward but long climb (Grade III), which consists primarily of non-technical terrain, but includes short sections of narrow ridge graded YDS 5.4. Access to any route on either Tower requires a long hike.<ref name="dougherty">{{cite book|first=Sean|last=Dougherty|title=Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies|publisher=Rocky Mountain Books|year=1991|isbn=0-921102-14-3|page=154}}</ref>

==Gallery== [[File:Vaux, Chancellor, Goodsirs.jpg|thumb|center|700px| View of Ottertail Range from west with Mount Vaux (left), Chancellor Peak (center), and Mount Goodsir (right)]]

==See also== * Mountain peaks of Canada * List of mountains in the Canadian Rockies * List of mountain peaks of North America * List of mountain peaks of the Rocky Mountains

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{Commons category-inline}} * {{cite crdb |id=568 |name=Goodsir Towers (South Tower) |accessdate=2019-08-20}} {{-}}

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