Photo: Mount Olive from the Icefields Parkway, north of Bow Lake
Mount Olive
- 3130 m (10,270ft)
- First Ascent
- Naming History
51.6119N -116.491W
Located on the continental divide on the Wapta Icefield; north buttress of Vulture Col
Province: Alberta/BC
Park: Banff/Yoho
Headwater: Bow/Columbia
Visible from Highway: 93N
Located on the continental divide on the Wapta Icefield; north buttress of Vulture Col
Province: Alberta/BC
Park: Banff/Yoho
Headwater: Bow/Columbia
Visible from Highway: 93N
Ascent Date: 1927
Ascent Party: M. Cropley, G.A. Gambs, N.L. Goodrich
Ascent Guide: Lawrence Grassi
Ascent Party: M. Cropley, G.A. Gambs, N.L. Goodrich
Ascent Guide: Lawrence Grassi
Year Named: 1897
Named by: H.B. Dixon
Named for: Dixon, Olive (H.B. Dixon named the mountain after his wife Olive.) (*The 1927 ACC Gazette indicates it was named because of the colour of the rock.)
Named by: H.B. Dixon
Named for: Dixon, Olive (H.B. Dixon named the mountain after his wife Olive.) (*The 1927 ACC Gazette indicates it was named because of the colour of the rock.)
Photo: Looking southeast to St. Nicholas Peak (left) and Mount Olive from Mount Rhondda (courtesy Marta Wojnarowska)
Looking southwest to Mount Olive (left) and St. Nicholas Peak from Highway #1, north of Bow Lake