Mount Edith

Mount Edith, in Banff National Park’s Bow River valley, is a cluster of three limestone peaks in the Sawback Range rather than a single summit, with the south peak the highest. Named in 1886 for Edith Orde, an assistant to Lady Agnes Macdonald, it also reveals the region’s geologic past: its limestone formed in shallow Devonian seas and was later thrust eastward over younger rock during the Laramide orogeny that helped shape the Rockies. All three peaks can be scrambled, though the southern summit is the most difficult, especially from the west. Its subarctic climate makes summer the best climbing season.

Alberta · Canada