Mount Indefatigable

Mount Indefatigable, a prominent 2,670-metre peak in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Alberta’s Canadian Rockies, overlooks the Kananaskis Lakes area and was first recorded as climbed in 1901 by Walter D. Wilcox. Named in 1917 for HMS Indefatigable, lost at the 1916 Battle of Jutland, it reflects a regional pattern of honoring ships and people linked to that battle; the name was officially adopted in 1922. The mountain consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny. Its runoff feeds the Kananaskis and Bow rivers, and its former summit trail was closed in 2005 to protect grizzly bear habitat.

Alberta · Canada