Diavolo Peak

Diavolo Peak is a 2,569-metre mountain in British Columbia’s Fitzsimmons Range within Garibaldi Provincial Park, about 16 kilometres southeast of Whistler. The range’s fifth-highest summit, it is distinguished by steep relief, rising roughly 1,500 metres above the Cheakamus River in just two kilometres, with the Diavolo Glacier on its east side feeding tributaries of that river. Neal M. Carter and Charles T. Townsend first climbed it on September 18, 1923, and named it from the Italian word for “devil,” inspired by a steep, rotten arête and dark rock. A nearby subsidiary summit they called Angelo was later officially recognized with Diavolo in 1930.

British Columbia · Canada