Mount Saskatchewan

Mount Saskatchewan rises above the North Saskatchewan River valley in Banff National Park, near the river’s headwaters in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies. Named in 1898 by mountaineer J. Norman Collie for the nearby Saskatchewan River, it is part of a rugged alpine landscape and is valued as both a landmark and a geological example of the Rockies. Its sedimentary rocks were laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. The mountain’s north face holds an unnamed glacier, and its eastern ridge features the prominent pinnacle unofficially called Lighthouse Tower, first climbed in 1964 by G. Boehnisch and L. Mackay.

Alberta · Canada