Located between Athabasca Glacier and Saskatchewan Glacier on the border of Banff & Jasper parks, Alberta Major headwaters Athabasca & Saskatchewan rivers, Mount Andromeda is located within the Columbia Icefield. The mountain can be seen from the Icefields Parkway (#93) near Sunwapta Pass and is directly southwest of Mount Athabasca. This peak has two summits, the southwest and northeast. Although older guidebooks said they were approximately equal height, BC Basemap clearly shows that the Northeast summit has one more 20m contour line. This summit has many technical snow and ice routes. All routes to the summit are exposed and subjected to considerable rockfall or avalanche danger.
Mt. Andromeda was named in 1938 by Rex Gibson, former president of the Alpine Club of Canada, after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus.
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