Nigel Peak

Nigel Peak is a 3,211-metre mountain in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies on the boundary of Banff and Jasper national parks, just north of Sunwapta Pass and visible from the Icefields Parkway and Athabasca Glacier. It has two summits, with the north summit higher, and rises sharply above the parkway, giving it strong local relief. The name honors packer Nigel Vavasour, who traveled with J. Norman Collie and Hugh Stutfield into the Columbia Icefield area in 1897; they named the mountain during a sheep hunt in 1898, and the name was officially adopted in 1935. Its first recorded ascent came in 1919.

Alberta · Canada