Mount Byng

Mount Byng is a 2,940-metre peak in Banff National Park’s upper Spray River Valley and the second-highest summit in the Blue Range. Named in 1918 for Julian Byng, later officially adopted in 1928, it honors the British field marshal who led the Canadian Corps in the First World War and later became Governor General of Canada. The first recorded ascent came in 1934 by H.S. Crosby with guide Rudolph Aemmer. Formed from ancient sedimentary rock later pushed eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain reflects the geological forces that shaped the Rockies and drains into creeks feeding the Spray Lakes Reservoir.

Alberta · Canada