Mount Jerram

Mount Jerram is a 2,996-metre peak in Alberta’s Opal Range within Peter Lougheed Provincial Park. Named after Admiral Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram of the Royal Navy’s Second Battle Squadron at the 1916 Battle of Jutland, its name was officially adopted in 1922. The first recorded ascent did not come until June 15, 1957, when Jim Tarrant and Don Morrison reached the summit. The mountain’s sedimentary rock was laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny, producing the Opal Range’s steeply tilted strata. Its runoff feeds both the Kananaskis and Elbow river systems.

Alberta · Canada