Wenkchemna Peak

Wenkchemna Peak stands on the Alberta-British Columbia border in the Canadian Rockies, on the southeast ridge extending from Mount Hungabee into the Valley of the Ten Peaks. Seen from Moraine Lake, it is usually counted as the valley’s tenth peak, reflecting the Stoney word from which its name derives. Samuel E. S. Allen named it in 1894. The mountain forms part of the ridge line with Mount Hungabee and Ringrose Peak. Like many nearby Rocky Mountain peaks, it consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Alberta · Canada