Mount Balfour
| Mount Balfour | |
|---|---|
Mount Balfour from Iceline Trail | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 3,272 m (10,735 ft) |
| Prominence | 934 m (3,064 ft) |
| Parent peak | Howse Peak (3295 m) |
| Listing | |
| Coordinates | 51°33′55″N 116°27′58″W / 51.56528°N 116.46611°W |
| Geography | |
| Interactive map of Mount Balfour | |
| Country | Canada |
| Provinces | Alberta and British Columbia |
| Protected areas | |
| Parent range | Waputik Range |
| Topo map | NTS 82N9 Hector Lake |
| Climbing | |
| First ascent | 1898 C.L. Noyes, C.S. Thompson, G.M. Weed; Appalachian Mountain Club |
Mount Balfour is a mountain located on the Continental Divide, part of the border between British Columbia and Alberta, in the Waputik Range in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. It is the 71st highest peak in Alberta and the 113th highest in British Columbia; it is also the 52nd most prominent in Alberta.
The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after Professor John Hutton Balfour, a Scottish botanist and instructor at the University of Edinburgh where Hector had studied.