| Located just south of the Duffy Lake road. Joffre presents itself particularly well on its glaciated northeast face, which is dominated by a series of steep couloirs. The west face is characterized by a series of broken ribs. The northwest and southeast sides are long ridges. The peak sports a variety of snow, ice and rock routes at all grades, from easy, classic mountaineering scrambles through to difficult rock and mixed lines. This is a peak with something for every climber. Together with Mount Matier, Joffre attracts its own weather, which results in two healthy glaciers to the southwest and southeast. The rock is granitic, but varies in character about the peak from well broken and rubbly, to steep and clean, well featured with splitter cracks. Name Notes: Joffre Peak adopted 22 June 1967 on 92J as identified in Canadian Alpine Journal, vol XLI, 1958, pp 30, 34.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names OfficeNamed by 1st ascent party (Dick Chambers, Joe Hutton, Cyril Scott, Ray Mason and Paddy Sherman) as this peak sits at the head of Joffre Creek, in turn named after Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies in World War I, General Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre.
Source: BC place name cards, or correspondence to/from BC's Chief Geographer or BC Geographical Names Office
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