Mount Edziza

Mount Edziza is a prominent volcano in northwestern British Columbia, the highest point in its volcanic complex and one of Canada’s highest volcanoes. Known to the Tahltan as Tenh Dẕetle, or “Ice Mountain,” it has been shaped by at least six stages of volcanic activity over about 1.1 million years, including the formation of Ice Peak, the main stratovolcano, and more recent cinder cones and lava flows. A major eruption destroyed an earlier summit cone, leaving today’s flat, ice-capped top and crater. Sacred to the Tahltan, who long used its volcanic glass for tools, the mountain and surrounding landscape were protected in Mount Edziza Provincial Park in 1972.

British Columbia · Canada