During Samuel Allen's 1893 explorations of the area, he travelled up Cataract Brook towards what is now known as Lake O'Hara. After passing Watch Tower he followed what is now known as Wiwaxy Creek into a hanging valley where a gust of wind almost knocked him over. He named the hanging valley, "The Gorge of the Winds." Later in the summer he returned to the Gorge of the Winds with Yule Carryer. During this trip Allen named the first prominent peak Wiwaxy, which he knew meant "windy" in the Stoney language. Appropriately, the wind blew that night as they camped in, "...a resting place in the hollow of the heather slope, whence at a glance we could survey the valley beneath, with its lakes and river and peaks and glacier beyond, while the wind in the tamarack boughs made harmony with the music of the waterfall."