Jumbo Mountain

Jumbo Mountain is a 3,437-metre summit in British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains near Invermere. With nearby Karnak Mountain, it forms a double-summit massif that is the second-highest in the Purcells and the fourth-highest in the Columbia Mountains. Its name grew out of local mining, tracing from the 1892 Jumbo Mineral Claim on Toby Creek, itself named for Jumbo the elephant, and the official place name was adopted in 1924. The mountain also holds an important place in Canadian mountaineering: it was first climbed in 1915, and Conrad Kain’s solo snowshoe ascent in 1919 became the first credited winter ascent of an 11,000-foot peak in Canada.

British Columbia · Canada