Mont Xalibu

Mont Xalibu is a 1,120-metre summit in Gaspésie National Park on Quebec’s Gaspé Peninsula, rising from a Devonian granite intrusion shaped further by glaciation and forming part of the McGerrigle massif above the cirque of Lac aux Américains. Officially designated in 1989, it bears a Mi’kmaq name referring to the woodland caribou on its slopes. Those animals, the last caribou south of the St. Lawrence River, declined steeply in the decades before and after the park’s creation in 1937. Protecting that herd was a central reason for establishing the park, and conservation still shapes access to this severe, wind-swept mountain.

Quebec · Canada