Eagle Mountain

Eagle Mountain is a 2,836-metre summit in Banff National Park near the Banff Sunshine ski resort in Alberta, with Mount Howard Douglas as its nearest higher neighbor. It is best known for the natural window on its northeast ridge called Goat's Eye, a feature that led many people to call the peak Goat's Eye Mountain and that George Simpson vividly likened to a giant fortress gateway. Formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain stands in a subarctic climate zone and drains into tributaries of the Bow River. Its official name was adopted in 1958.

Alberta · Canada