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The Stawamus Chief, officially Stawamus Chief Mountain[2] (often referred to as simply The Chief, or less commonly Squamish Chief), is a granitic dome located adjacent to the town of Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. It towers over 700 m (2,297 ft) above the waters of nearby Howe Sound. It is one of the largest granite monoliths in the world.[3]
The Squamish, the indigenous people from this area, consider the Chief to be a place of spiritual significance. The Squamish language name for the mountain is Siy̓ám̓ Smánit. Siy̓ám̓ is usually translated as "chief", though it is really a social ranking), and their traditions say it is a longhouse transformed to stone by Xáays, as the Transformer Brothers are known in this language. The great cleft in the mountain's cliff-face in Squamish legend is a mark of corrosion left by the skin of Sínulhka, a giant two-headed sea serpent.[2]
The mountain gets its name from the Squamish village near its foot, Stawamus (Stʼa7mes), as is also the case with the Stawamus River and Stawamus Lake, though the pronunciation of the village name is different from that commonly used in English - IPA:[ˈstʼɑːʔməs] is an approximation of the Squamish language, vs /stəˈwɑːmʊs/ as commonly used in English.[citation needed].
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StawamusChief Provincial Park is a provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, established in 1997. It encompasses both the eponymous Stawamus Chief...
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world centre for rock climbing, with the 700 m (2,300 ft) bulk of the StawamusChief, a huge rock formation always busy with climbers, along with other formations...
within the boundaries of the StawamusChief Provincial Park. A partially maintained hiking trail, accessible from the Chief's main "backside" trail, leads...
of the Howe Sound. Just to the north are Murrin Provincial Park and StawamusChief Provincial Park. Located immediately across the highway from Shannon...
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the Cairngorms, Sugarloaf Mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the StawamusChief, British Columbia, Canada. Granite was used for setts on the St. Louis...
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profiles the 1961 attempt of Ed Cooper and Jim Baldwin to climb the StawamusChief mountain near Squamish, British Columbia. The film premiered at the...
(5.13b), The Grand Wall (5.13b), and The Black Dyke (5.13b), on the StawamusChief in Squamish, in a single 12-hour push. He currently works at Elevation...
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