Bident Mountain

Bident Mountain is a 3,084-metre summit in Banff National Park, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. Though it has only 103 metres of prominence, it forms an imposing wall with nearby Quadra Mountain, and both are regarded as subpeaks of Mount Fay. Named for its two-pronged shape, Bident Mountain forms the west buttress of Consolation Pass opposite Mount Bell, above the head of Consolation Valley. It was first climbed in 1903 by Charles Thompson and Hans Kaufmann. The mountain consists of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic and later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny.

Alberta · Canada