Mount Smuts

Mount Smuts is a 2,938-metre peak in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, in the Spray Valley on the boundary of Peter Lougheed Provincial Park and Banff National Park. Named in 1918 for Jan Smuts, the South African and British imperial leader and mountaineer, it received official recognition in 1924, and its first recorded ascent came in 1926. The mountain is formed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Known as a difficult, exposed scramble with relatively uncommon successful ascents, it rises in a subarctic climate where runoff flows west to the Spray River and east to Smuts Creek, both entering the Spray Lakes Reservoir.

Alberta · Canada