Mount Blane

Mount Blane is a 2,993-metre peak in Alberta’s Opal Range of the Canadian Rockies, named for Royal Navy commander Sir Charles Rodney Blane, who was killed in 1916 at the Battle of Jutland when HMS Queen Mary exploded and sank. Its name was officially adopted in 1922. Formed from rock laid down in shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain stands in a subarctic climate with severe winter cold. Its waters drain west to the Kananaskis River and east to tributaries of the Elbow River. The first recorded ascent in 1955 reached the summit but ended with F. Koch’s death on the descent.

Alberta · Canada