Mount Gray

Mount Gray is a 2,886-metre summit in the Vermilion Range of the Canadian Rockies on the western edge of Kootenay National Park, forming part of the Rockwall, a striking limestone escarpment above the Rockwall Trail. The peak is made of Ottertail limestone deposited in the Cambrian period and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. First proposed in 1918 as Mount Cambria or Cambria Peak, it was officially named in 1924 for William J. Gray, a University of British Columbia student and founding member of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club who drowned in 1917 during a geologic field survey. Nearby Mount Drysdale memorializes his companion Charles Wales Drysdale.

British Columbia · Canada