Mount Adam Joachim | |
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Highest point | |
Elevation | 3,090 m (10,140 ft) [1] [a] |
Prominence | 440 m (1,440 ft) [1] |
Listing | Mountains of Alberta |
Coordinates | 52°24′16″N117°31′40″W / 52.40444°N 117.52778°W [4] |
Geography | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Alberta |
Protected area | Jasper National Park [5] |
Parent range | Winston Churchill Range [5] |
Topo map | NTS 83C5 Fortress Lake [4] |
Climbing | |
First ascent | 1938 Survey party [1] |
Mount Adam Joachim is a mountain four kilometres ENE of Gong Lake in Canada's Jasper National Park. It was named in 1968 by J. Monroe Thorington after Adam Joachim. Joachim, a partial Cree Indian, was a horse packer who accompanied Alfred J. Ostheimer on his 1927 expedition into the Columbia Icefield. [2]