Storm Mountain

Storm Mountain is a 3,158-metre peak in the Canadian Rockies on the Continental Divide at the Alberta-British Columbia border, shared by Banff and Kootenay national parks. Named in 1884 by geologist George Mercer Dawson after storms repeatedly hid its summit, it was first recorded as climbed in 1889 by W.S. Drewry and A. St. Cyr with guide Tom Wilson, and its name was formally adopted in 1924. Formed from sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and reshaped during the Laramide orogeny, it drains to the Vermilion and Bow rivers and is notable both for its rugged relief and for Dawson later reusing the same name for another peak.

Alberta · Canada