Mount King is a 2,868-metre (9,409-foot) mountain summit located in Yoho National Park, in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada.
Its nearest higher peak is Mount Deville, 5.0 km (3.1 mi) to the northwest.
[1] Both are in the Van Horne Range, which has the oldest mountains in the Rockies, and as such they are highly eroded.
The mountain was named by Otto Koltz in 1886 for William Frederick King (1854–1916), a Canadian surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant.
[3] Mount King is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Cambrian period.