Mount Thompson

Mount Thompson is a prominent peak above Bow Lake in Banff National Park, visible from the Icefields Parkway and set between the Bow and Peyto glaciers near the Wapta Icefield. Its name preserves an era of exploration in the Canadian Rockies: Charles Sproull Thompson and his companions passed through this landscape in 1897, naming surrounding summits as they crossed the Bow Glacier and Wapta Icefield, and the mountain was first climbed the next year by Norman Collie, Hugh Stutfield, and Herman Woolley. Formally adopted in 1928, the name reflects a time when climbers were still mapping and defining this glacier-filled terrain.

Alberta · Canada