Mount Christie (Alberta)

Mount Christie is a 3,103-metre (10,180 ft) mountain summit located in the Athabasca River valley of Jasper National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta, Canada.

The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 for William J. Christie, a Canadian explorer and politician.

[5] Christie was the Chief factor at the Hudson's Bay Company in Fort Edmonton when Hector and the Palliser expedition wintered there in 1858–1859.

[2] Mount Christie is composed of sedimentary rock laid down from the Precambrian to Jurassic periods.

Precipitation runoff from Mount Christie drains into the Athabasca River.