Mont des Poilus

Mont des Poilus is a 3,161-metre summit in Yoho National Park in British Columbia's Canadian Rockies, within the Waputik Mountains near Mount Baker. First climbed in 1901 by James Outram, Edward Whymper, and their guides, it was named by Arthur Wheeler just after the First World War armistice to honor the poilus, the ordinary soldiers of the French Army, and the name was formally adopted in 1924. The mountain is composed of Cambrian sedimentary rock later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its east side includes the Glacier des Poilus, and its waters drain to the Yoho and Amiskwi rivers.

British Columbia · Canada