Mount Packenham

Mount Packenham is a 3,000-metre peak in Alberta’s Opal Range, visible from Highway 40 and the Kananaskis Lakes area and notable among the mountains of Kananaskis Country. Named officially in 1922 for Rear Admiral Sir William C. Pakenham of the 1916 Battle of Jutland, it preserves a misspelling introduced by the Interprovincial Boundary Commission. The mountain was formed from sedimentary rock deposited between the Precambrian and Jurassic, then pushed eastward in the Laramide orogeny as part of the Lewis Overthrust, giving it the Opal Range’s steeply tilted layers. Its climbing history is disputed, with claimed first ascents in 1954 and possibly instead 1972.

Alberta · Canada