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Mount Drysdale is a 2,932-metre peak in British Columbia’s Vermilion Range, on the western edge of Kootenay National Park, forming part of the Rockwall limestone escarpment near Rockwall Peak. With nearby Mount Gray, it flanks Wolverine Pass and helps define the scenery along the 55-kilometre Rockwall Trail, known for alpine passes, meadows, hanging glaciers, and towering cliffs. The mountain’s name, officially adopted in 1924, honors Geological Survey of Canada member Charles Wales Drysdale, who drowned in the Kootenay River in 1917 during fieldwork; William Gray also died in the same accident. Their paired names preserve that loss in the landscape.
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