Mount Verendrye

Mount Verendrye is a 3,086-metre (10,125-foot) mountain summit located in British Columbia, Canada.

Mount Verendrye is situated on the western boundary of Kootenay National Park near the southern end of the Vermilion Range, which is a sub-range of the Canadian Rockies.

Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,820 meters (5,970 feet) above the Banff–Windermere Highway in six kilometers (3.7 miles).

[8] The mountain's toponym was applied in 1884 by Canadian surveyor George Mercer Dawson and was officially adopted in 1952 by the Geographical Names Board of Canada to honor Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (1685–1749), a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer.

[9][10] The first ascent of the summit was made in 1922 by Morrison P. Bridgland (1878–1948), a Dominion Land Surveyor who climbed and named many peaks in the Canadian Rockies.

La Verendrye