Mount Sarrail

Mount Sarrail is a 3,159-metre peak in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Alberta's Canadian Rockies, near the Continental Divide and visible from Upper Kananaskis Lake and Highway 40. Named in 1918 for French General Maurice Sarrail and officially adopted in 1924, it was first climbed in 1930 by Kate Gardiner and Walter Feuz, who also made first ascents of nearby peaks that year. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and drainage into tributaries of the Kananaskis River.

Alberta · Canada