Eagle Peak

Eagle Peak is a 2,846-metre summit in Glacier National Park in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains, near Rogers Pass. Named by Glacier House manager Harry Perley for a west-ridge crag resembling an eagle’s head, the name was formally adopted in 1932. The first recorded ascent came in 1893, when Samuel Allen and Walter Wilcox climbed it; Wilcox later wrote of the towering rock formation near the summit, shattered ledges, huge stone blocks, and the wide view from the top. The mountain has a subarctic climate, and its runoff drains both west to the Illecillewaet River and east to the Beaver River, marking a divide between watersheds.

British Columbia · Canada