Mount Athabasca

Mount Athabasca, in the Columbia Icefield of Jasper National Park, is significant not just as a prominent Canadian Rockies peak but for its rare three-way drainage divide: runoff from different slopes reaches the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean, and Hudson Bay. Named in 1898 by J. Norman Collie, who made the first recorded ascent on August 18 that year, it bears a Cree-derived name first applied to Lake Athabasca. The mountain is also known for the Silverhorn, a horn-shaped point near the summit that forms one of the easier ascent routes, alongside glacier, ridge, and more technical climbing lines that keep it a noted objective.

Alberta · Canada