Tumbling Peak

Tumbling Peak is a 3,145-metre mountain in British Columbia’s Vermilion Range of the Canadian Rockies, on the western edge of Kootenay National Park. Part of the Rockwall escarpment, it rises amid steep alpine terrain near Mount Gray and higher Foster Peak, and takes its name from Tumbling Glacier on its northeast flank. The surrounding landscape includes the Rockwall Trail, a 55-kilometre route known for alpine passes, meadows, hanging glaciers, and towering limestone cliffs. Tumbling Peak is formed of Ottertail limestone deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny, and it drains toward both the Vermilion and Kootenay river systems.

British Columbia · Canada