Wiwaxy Peak

Wiwaxy Peak is a 2,706-metre mountain near Lake O’Hara in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, in the Canadian Rockies. Named in 1894 by Samuel E.S. Allen from a Stoney First Nations word meaning “windy,” its official present form was approved in 1924. The summit was first recorded as climbed in 1951 by T. Church, D. Pullin, W. Roubenheimer, and T. Whalley. Formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it reflects the mountain-building that shaped the Rockies. The Burgess Shale animal Wiwaxia corrugata was named for the peak.

British Columbia · Canada