Mount Sparrowhawk

Mount Sparrowhawk is a 3,121-metre summit in Kananaskis Country in Alberta's Canadian Rockies, standing on a divide where water flows east to the Kananaskis River and west to the Spray Lakes Reservoir before both systems join the Bow River. Named in 1917 for HMS Sparrowhawk, a British destroyer lost at the Battle of Jutland, it was officially adopted in 1922. Its first recorded ascent came in 1947. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its south slope was once considered for alpine skiing in Calgary's 1988 Winter Olympics bid.

Alberta · Canada