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Mount Waddington

Blue sky extends in the distance above a larger glacier field leading to the base of Mount Waddington and the rock peak stands clear in the sunshine; other peaks surrounding Mount Waddington are blanketed by a bank of low lying grey storm clouds.

Photo by Shawn from Airdrie, Canada; Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Waddington_(250499056).jpg); Date: September 21, 2006.

W.A. Don and Phyllis Munday discovered the Mountain in the mid-1920s and had originally called it ‘Mystery Mountain’. They spent over a decade exploring the mountain peaks near Mount Waddington, but were never able to summit the tallest peak in the Coast Mountains. According to the BC Geographical names database, the mountain was named Mount Waddington in 1928.