N of Berg Lake
53.1833 N 119.1333 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack
Earliest known reference to this name is 1911 (Wheeler)
Name officially adopted in 1912
Official in BC – Canada
Wheeler’s map Mount Robson 1912
Boundary Commission Sheet 32 (surveyed in 1922 &1924)
Boundary Commission Sheet 32 A (surveyed in 1924)
Mount Mumm at Berg Lake.
William James Topley, 1914
Library and Archives Canada
A. L. Mumm and guide Moritz Inderbinen. Mount Robson Camp on Snowbird Pass.
Photo by Frank W. Freeborn, 1913
Canadian Alpine Journal 1915
During the 1911 Alpine Club of Canada–Smithsonian Robson Expedition, surveyor Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] climbed a peak on which he had noticed a rock cairn. “It had been placed there in 1910 by Dr. J. Norman Collie and A. L. Mumm, accompanied by the well-known Swiss guide, Moritz Inderbinen. The peak has been christened ‘Mumm’s Peak.’ From the summit the scene beggars description.”
The British climber Arnold Louis Mumm [1859–1927] first came to Canada in 1909 at the invitation of Alpine Club of Canada director Wheeler. After attending the 1909 ACC camp at Lake O’Hara, Mumm, along with Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery [1873–1955], Geoffrey Hastings [1860–1941], and Inderbinen [1856–1926], made an unsuccesful attempt on Mount Robson.
Mumm returned with British professor John Norman Collie [1859–1942] in July, 1910, when the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway’s steel had been laid as far as Wolf Creek, about one hundred miles east of the Yellowhead Pass. The party spent some time about Mount Robson, but there was so much snow on the mountains and the weather was so stormy that climbing was out of the question, and they were able to ascend only some of the lesser peaks. They returned down the Smoky and Snake Indian rivers.
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- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “A. L. Mumm — An Appreciation.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 16 (1927–1927):173-175
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- Wikipedia. Mumm Peak