Serendipity Spire

Serendipity Spire is a 2,857-metre peak in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, northwest of Golden, rising amid glaciers in a rugged alpine landscape near the OK Glacier. Runoff and glacial melt from its slopes feed tributaries of the Columbia River. The mountain is especially striking for its steep local relief, with the summit rising 1,457 metres above Austerity Creek in about 2 kilometres. Its subarctic climate brings severe winter cold that helps sustain surrounding glaciers. American mountaineer William Lowell Putnam III supplied the name, which was officially adopted in 1973, though his use of “serendipity” was technically a malapropism.

British Columbia · Canada