Mount Alcantara

Mount Alcantara is the 3,029-metre highest point of British Columbia's Blue Range in the Canadian Rockies, rising steeply in a remote area near the Continental Divide and Mount Assiniboine. Its runoff feeds Alcantara Creek and Aurora Creek within the Cross River watershed. Formed from sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it reflects the geologic forces that built much of the Rockies. Named in 1916 for RMS Alcantara and officially adopted in 1966, the mountain was first climbed in 1929 by Kate Gardiner and guide Walter Feuz. Its subarctic climate brings severe cold, snow, and isolation.

British Columbia · Canada