Mount Chester

Mount Chester rises in the Smith-Dorrien Creek Valley of Kananaskis in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, with nearby Chester Lake helping make the area a well-known destination. Named in 1917 for HMS Chester, a Royal Navy ship heavily damaged at the Battle of Jutland, the mountain also preserves a far older geological history. It is built of sedimentary layers deposited from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then pushed eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Mount Chester’s subarctic climate brings cold, snowy winters, mild summers, and severe wind chill, making July through September the usual climbing season.

Alberta · Canada