Photo: Tusk Peak from Cummins Ridge (courtesy Alan Kane)
Tusk Peak
- 3360 m (11,024ft)
- First Ascent
- Naming History
52.2086N -117.937W
Located in the Clemenceau Icefield area between Tusk Glacier and Duplicate Glacier
Province: BC
Headwater: Columbia
Located in the Clemenceau Icefield area between Tusk Glacier and Duplicate Glacier
Province: BC
Headwater: Columbia
Ascent Date: 1927
Ascent Party: J. De Laittre, W.R. Maclaurin, Alfred Ostheimer
Ascent Guide: Hans Fuhrer
Ascent Party: J. De Laittre, W.R. Maclaurin, Alfred Ostheimer
Ascent Guide: Hans Fuhrer
Year Named: 1920
Named by: Interprovincial Boundary Survey
Named for: The mountain is a sharp, tusk shaped, cone of rock.
Named by: Interprovincial Boundary Survey
Named for: The mountain is a sharp, tusk shaped, cone of rock.
Photo: (l-r) Tusk Peak, Mount Irvine, Mount Shackleton (beyond), Mount Chettan, Mount Shipton, and Pic Tordu (beyond) from the northwest on Reconnaissance Ridge (courtesy Rienk Lakeman)
Tusk Peak (courtesy John Duerden)