Mount French

Mount French is a 3,244-metre summit in the Spray Mountains of Alberta's Canadian Rockies, within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Kananaskis Country. The second highest point in the Spray Range, it was named in 1915 by surveyor Morrison P. Bridgland for Sir John French, commander of British forces during the opening 16 months of the First World War; the name was officially adopted in 1924. First climbed in 1921 by M. Morton Jr., H.S. Hall Jr., and guide Edward Feuz Jr., the mountain is formed of ancient sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny and is flanked by major glaciers in a severe subarctic alpine climate.

Alberta · Canada