Mount Nelson

Mount Nelson is a prominent 3,313-metre peak in the Purcell Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, overlooking the Rocky Mountain Trench west of Invermere. Named in 1807 by explorer David Thompson after Lord Admiral Nelson in memory of the Battle of Trafalgar, it was officially adopted as a place name in 1924. The first recorded ascent was made in September 1910 by C. D. Ellis via the south ridge. Its summit bears a five-foot aluminum cross that stores the summit register, erected in 1986 by the Kloos family of Invermere. The mountain’s runoff feeds tributaries of the Columbia River, and several climbing routes reach its summit.

British Columbia · Canada