The President

The President is a mountain in eastern British Columbia in Yoho National Park, north of Emerald Lake, rising on the President/Vice-President Massif in the President Range near the Alpine Club of Canada’s Stanley Mitchell Hut. Its name changed after an unusual sequence of events: Edward Whymper called it Shaugnessy in 1904 for Canadian Pacific Railway president Thomas Shaughnessy, but the Alpine Club of Canada renamed it The President in 1907 when it learned Shaugnessy was already assigned to a mountain in the Selkirks. The peak stands in a subarctic climate marked by snowy winters, mild summers, and severe winter cold intensified by wind chill.

British Columbia · Canada