Mount Collie

Mount Collie rises in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, on the western edge of the Wapta Icefield in the Canadian Rockies, within a rugged glaciated landscape of icefields, steep rock, and alpine weather. Charles S. Thompson named it in 1897 for J. Norman Collie, a noted mountaineer and early explorer of the Canadian Rockies, during a period when climbers and surveyors were identifying many peaks in the range. The mountain is formed from sedimentary rock laid down in ancient shallow seas from the Precambrian to the Jurassic, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters and mild summers.

British Columbia · Canada