Mount Cornwall

Mount Cornwall is a 2,970-metre peak in Kananaskis Country in Alberta's Canadian Rockies, between the Elbow and Little Elbow river valleys and visible in clear weather from Highway 66. Named in 1922 after HMS Cornwall, a British warship that fought at the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the First World War, it was first recorded as climbed in 1949 by Arnold Choquette, and its name was officially adopted in 1951. The mountain is built of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to the Jurassic in shallow seas, then thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny. Its runoff feeds the Elbow River within the Bow watershed.

Alberta · Canada