British Columbia peaks
British Columbia summits
First Ascent Awards
1592 of 8,045 peaks 19%
Top climbing months
August 22%
July 20%
September 13%
British Columbia mountains highlights
- 75% of British Columbia is mountainous. That's almost 700,000 km2 of mountain terrain, 4 times the size of Great Britain. Mind-blowingly huge.
- BC's rugged Coast Mountains line the 27,000 km of Pacific coastline, topped by 4,019 m Mt Waddington
- Eastern BC is mountain country... dominated by the breathtaking Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains (broken into the Cariboo, Selkirk, Monashee, and Purcell ranges) in the south.
- The St Elias Mountains in far northern BC include its highest, Mt Fairweather at 4671 m, lying only 20km east of the Pacific Ocean.
Latest summits

"Day trip up gordon, Easy ski, basically straight-lined it from the false summit. We were able to keep our skis on to the top, although found a couple sharks lurking on the summit block. Ski conditions were good, 3 inches of powder/facets on crust. Some concerning cracking below bow hut, but it was not propagating so we continued. Maybe a sun crust lower down. " — ken_hercules • Jan 12, 2023

"2 Nights at Asulkan cabin, amazing inversion the whole time we were there. Snow stability was good. 2 minor releases were visible. 10+Cm of powder improving in quality from summit to below treeline. Lots of tracks up there. " — ken_hercules • Dec 14, 2022
"Decided to join Leigh-Anne, Kate, Jenna, Bonnie and Nate for a fun outing. I did Tyrwhitt and most of the way over to Pocaterra, but since I've been up Pocaterra before and Leigh-Anne decided to take the scree slog route, I held off. I didn't want to go along the ridge by myself. Down the usual descent off of Pocaterra and back at the car before dark." — BertB • Oct 15, 2022

"Redid Tyrwhitt and got Mount Pocaterra! One more moderate left in the Kane 3rd edition! Had an awesome day out with Bert, Nate, Jenna, Kate and Bonnie. We did both summits, but I did the lower line to get the second one as I hate exposure lol." — leigh-annewebster • Oct 15, 2022

"Ridgewalked from North Kootenay Pass (accessed from AB) to St. Eloi SW1 Mountain, and out through Syncline Brook. Overall really fun day; priceless with the fall colors. The crux was descending the southwest ridge of St. Eloi Mountain towards St. Eloi SW1 Mountain, but that was fairly navigable,. Total of 34km's including the approach and descent. Beautiful waterfalls descending from St.Eloi SW1 through Syncline Brook." — danielvanderpyl • Oct 1, 2022