Mount Afton

Mount Afton is a 2,553-metre summit in Glacier National Park's Selkirk Mountains, near Asulkan Ridge and south of Rogers Pass in British Columbia. It entered climbing history in 1893, when Herbert Lambert, Miss MacLeod, Harold A. Perley, William H. Rau, and William Stables made the first recorded ascent by the east buttress. In 1895, Philip Stanley Abbot, Charles Ernest Fay, and Charles S. Thompson climbed the mountain by the south ridge and coined its name from letters in their surnames. Officially adopted in 1924, the name belongs to a peak in a subarctic setting whose runoff drains north to the Illecillewaet River.

British Columbia · Canada