Mount Foch

Mount Foch is a 3,194-metre peak in the Canadian Rockies at the northern end of Elk Lakes Provincial Park, standing on the Continental Divide between Alberta and British Columbia. Named in 1918 for Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France, it gained its first recorded ascent in 1930 by Kate Gardiner and Walter Feuz, who that year also completed first ascents of nearby Mount Sarrail and Mount Lyautey. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and a main climbing season from June through September.

British Columbia · Canada