Mount Glasgow

Mount Glasgow is a prominent 2,935-metre peak in Kananaskis Country, rising between the Elbow River and Little Elbow River valleys and visible from Calgary in clear weather. Its sharply pyramidal form made it a notable landmark for early travelers. Peter Fidler, crossing the prairies near present-day Calgary, called it Pyramid after taking bearings on the mountain, in what is regarded as the first known non-native naming of a peak in the Canadian Rockies. That name did not last: in 1922 the mountain was renamed for HMS Glasgow, and the name became official in 1939. Built of ancient sedimentary rock, it was first recorded climbed in 1949.

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