Eiffel Peak

Eiffel Peak is a 3,077-metre summit in Banff National Park, Alberta, in the Bow Range of the Canadian Rockies, rising near Mount Temple. First climbed in 1901 by Charles S. Thompson, G.M. Weed, and guide Hans Kaufmann, it was named in 1908 by Arthur O. Wheeler as an allusion to the Eiffel Tower because of its great height, and the name was officially adopted in 1952. The mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in ancient shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger layers during the Laramide orogeny. It stands in a subarctic climate with severe winters and mild summers.

Alberta · Canada