Mount Putnik

Mount Putnik is a mountain in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, north of Three Isle Creek and west of the Kananaskis River. Named for Serbian field marshal Radomir Putnik, who lived from 1847 to 1917, it also carries a memorial connection to Serbia’s role and losses in the First World War. In June 2012, the Ravna Gora Serbian Heritage Society of Calgary dedicated a plaque honoring Putnik and the allied armed forces in Serbia, recalling that the country lost a quarter of its population, military and civilian, during the war. The mountain stands in a subarctic environment with severe winters, mild summers, and runoff feeding tributaries of the Kananaskis River.

Alberta · Canada