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Photo: Totem Tower (courtesy Gillean Daffern)

Totem Tower

  • 3155 m (10,352ft)
  • First Ascent
  • Naming History
51.8922N -116.607W
Located in the Mistaya River Valley south of the head of Totem Creek and at the head of Spreading Creek

Province: Alberta
Park: Banff
Headwater: Saskatchewan
Major Valley: Mistaya
Visible from Highway: 93N
Ascent Date: 1970
Ascent Party: J.B. Dodge jr., D. Von Henning, W.L. Putnam, A. Wexler
Ascent Guide: Leo Graillmair, Rudi Gertsch
Year Named: 1973
Named by: W.L. Putnam
Named for: The mountain is southeast of the headwates of Totem Creek.