Michael Peak

Michael Peak is a 2,701-metre summit in Yoho National Park, north of Field in British Columbia’s Canadian Rockies. Part of the President Range in the Waputik Mountains, it was first known as Angle Peak and was renamed in 1901 by Edward Whymper for Arthur Michael, a chemist who had joined notable ascents in the region; the name was formally adopted in 1924. James Outram and guide Christian Kaufmann made the first ascent in 1900. The mountain’s sedimentary rock formed in the Cambrian, was later thrust eastward during the Laramide orogeny, and was further shaped by glaciers into the sharp arête linking it to the President group.

British Columbia · Canada