{{Short description|Mountain in Alberta, Canada}} {{For|the New Zealand mountain|Mount Woolley (New Zealand)}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Woolley | image = Mt. Wooley.JPG | image_caption = East face of Wooley | elevation_m = 3405 | elevation_ref = <ref name=pf>{{cite peakfinder |id=1551|name=Mount Woolley |access-date=2007-09-10}}</ref><ref name=otm>{{cite opentopomap|Mount Woolley|52.29641|-117.42651|2023-07-18}}</ref> | prominence_m = 565 | prominence_ref = <ref name=bivouac>{{cite bivouac|id=114|name=Mount Woolley|access-date=2007-09-10}}</ref> | range = Winston Churchill Range | parent_peak = Mount Alberta (3619 m) | listing = Mountains of Alberta | country = Canada | region_type = Province | region = Alberta | part_type = Protected area | part = Jasper National Park | map = Canada Alberta#Canada | map_caption = Location in Alberta | map_size = 250 | label_position = right | coordinates = {{coord|52|17|50|N|117|25|31|W|type:mountain_region:CA-AB_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref=<ref name=cgndb>{{cite cgndb|id=IAAAQ|name=Mount Woolley|access-date=2023-07-18}}</ref> | topo = NTS {{Canada NTS Map Sheet|83|C|6}}<ref name=cgndb/> | first_ascent = July 28,1925, by a Japanese team (Six Japanese men including Yūkō Maki and three men from Switzerland) | easiest_route = Rock/snow climb }} '''Mount Woolley''' is a mountain in Alberta, Canada, located in the Sunwapta River Valley of Jasper National Park, 1½ km south of Diadem Peak and is part of Winston Churchill Range of the Canadian Rockies.
==History== The mountain was named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie after Herman Woolley. Woolley, a former football player, climbed extensively with Collie during his 1898 and 1902 expeditions into the Canadian Rockies.<ref name=pf/>
The first ascent was made in 1925 by a Japanese team consisting of S. Hashimoto, H. Hatano, {{ill|T. Hayakawa|ja|早川種三}}, Y. Maki, {{ill|Y.Mita|ja|三田幸夫}}, N. Okabe. They were guided by Heinrich Fuhrer, H. Kohler and J. Weber.<ref name=pf/> A few days earlier the same group had made the first ascent of Mount Alberta.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Ascents Along the Athabaska | journal =American Alpine Journal| date=1937| issn= 0065-6925 | first =Francis S. | last = North | volume =#3 (1) | pages= | access-date =26 March 2026 |url = https://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12193705700/Ascents-Along-the-Athabaska }}</ref>
==Geology== Mount Woolley is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.<ref name=Belyea1960>{{Belyea-Banff-NP}}</ref> Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was pushed east and over the top of younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.<ref name=gadd>{{cite book|title=Geology of the Rocky Mountains and Columbias |author=Gadd, Ben |year=2008}}</ref>
==Climate== Based on the Köppen climate classification, Mount Woolley is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers.<ref name=KGcc2007>{{Cite Köppen-Geiger cc 2007}}</ref> Temperatures can drop below -20 °C with wind chill factors below -30 °C.
==See also== {{stack|{{Portal|Canada|Mountains}}}} *Geography of Alberta *List of mountains of Canada
==References== {{reflist}}
{{Canadian Rockies|state=collapsed}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Woolley}} Category:Three-thousanders of Alberta Category:Winston Churchill Range Category:Mountains of Jasper National Park