Mount Wardle

Mount Wardle is a 2,805-metre peak in Kootenay National Park at the southern end of the Vermilion Range in British Columbia. Rising about 1,600 metres above the Banff–Windermere Highway in only three kilometres, it is one of the park’s most dramatic landforms and supports the park’s largest population of mountain goats. The mountain is composed of Cambrian Ottertail limestone later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, and its slopes drain toward both the Vermilion and Kootenay river systems. First climbed in 1922, it was officially named in 1924 for James Morey Wardle, a highway engineer, Parks Canada official, and former superintendent of Banff National Park.

British Columbia · Canada