Mount Andromache

Mount Andromache is a prominent 3,033-metre peak in Banff National Park’s Bow River valley, rising steeply beside the Icefields Parkway and standing as a visible landmark along one of the park’s best-known roads. Near Mount Hector, it overlooks the Molar Glacier and contributes runoff to tributaries of the Bow River. The mountain is formed of sedimentary rock deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its first recorded ascent came in 1887 by James J. McArthur and Tom Riley, and its present name, adopted in 1948, links it to nearby Mount Hector through Greek mythology.

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