Mount Verendrye

Mount Verendrye is a prominent 3,086-metre peak on the western edge of Kootenay National Park in British Columbia, marking the southern end of the Rockwall escarpment. Rising steeply above the Banff–Windermere Highway, it anchors a landscape of alpine meadows, hanging glaciers, and towering limestone cliffs along the Rockwall Trail. Formed of Cambrian Ottertail limestone and shaped by eastward thrusting during the Laramide orogeny, the mountain also divides drainage between the Kootenay and Vermilion river systems. Named in 1884 for explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, it was first recorded as climbed in 1922 by surveyor Morrison P. Bridgland.

British Columbia · Canada