Mount Babel

Mount Babel is a mountain in Banff National Park's Bow Range, visible from the Valley of the Ten Peaks and named for the Tower of Babel, a quartzite monolith rising about 500 metres above Moraine Lake. Walter D. Wilcox named the tower in 1899 because it resembled the biblical Tower of Babel, and the mountain later took its name from that pillar. The mountain was first climbed on July 23, 1910, and the tower became a notable climbing objective with its first recorded ascent in 1959. Mount Babel is formed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny.

Alberta · Canada