Mount Nestor

Mount Nestor is a 2,970-metre peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies at the south end of the Goat Range along Spray Lakes Reservoir. Its summit straddles two protected areas, with its east flank in Spray Valley Provincial Park and its west side in Banff National Park, making it a prominent landmark along Alberta Highway 742. First climbed in 1913 by the Interprovincial Boundary Commission, it reflects the importance of this surveyed divide. Officially named in 1922 for HMS Nestor, lost at Jutland in the First World War, the mountain is formed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny that helped shape the Rockies.

Alberta · Canada