Yukness Mountain

Yukness Mountain is a 2,851-metre peak in Yoho National Park’s Bow Range, southeast of Lake O’Hara in British Columbia. Its knife-edge profile gave rise to the name yukness, a Stoney term used by Samuel E. S. Allen in 1894 meaning “sharpened with a knife,” and Walter Wilcox also helped place the peak in the area’s early written record. First climbed by a survey party in 1918, the mountain had its official name restored in 1952 after an incorrect change to Mount Yukness. Its history reflects exploration around Lake O’Hara, while its sedimentary rocks and uplift during the Laramide orogeny connect it to the broader formation of the Canadian Rockies.

British Columbia · Canada