Mount Gordon

Mount Gordon, a 3,161-metre glaciated dome in Yoho National Park, is the highest point of the Wapta Icefield and rises in the Waputik Range of the Canadian Rockies just west of the Continental Divide. It was first climbed in August 1897 by a large party led by guide Peter Sarbach, and during the descent Charles Sproull Thompson fell into a crevasse and was rescued. Thompson named the mountain that year for John Hamilton-Gordon, then Governor General of Canada, and the name was officially adopted in 1924. The peak is made of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.

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