Mount St. Bride

Mount St. Bride, a 3,315-metre peak in Banff National Park, is the highest point of Alberta’s Sawback Range in the Canadian Rockies. Near the headwaters of the Red Deer River, it was named in 1898 for Saint Bride, patron saint of the Douglas family. Its first recorded ascent was made in 1910 by J. W. A. Hickson with guides Edward Feuz Sr. and Edward Feuz Jr., and the name was formally adopted in 1956. Formed from sedimentary rock laid down between the Precambrian and Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, it rises in a subarctic landscape of long snowy winters and mild summers.

Alberta · Canada