Howse Peak, Rocky mountain peak at Banff National Park, Canada

Howse Peak rises to 3,295 meters (10,810 feet) along the continental divide between Alberta and British Columbia as the highest summit in the Waputik Mountains. The mountain displays black limestone and yellow sedimentary rock layers formed in shallow ancient seas from Precambrian through Jurassic times.

David Thompson named Howse Pass for Joseph Howse, the Hudson's Bay Company trader who crossed it in 1809, two years after Thompson himself had reached it for the North West Company. The 3,295 m summit above the pass was first climbed on August 14, 1902, by J. Norman Collie, Hugh Stutfield, G.M. Weed and Herman Woolley with Swiss guide Hans Kaufmann, who descended a 50-foot rock chimney on the ridge.

The name comes from Howse Pass, 5 km west, named by David Thompson after Hudson's Bay Company trader Joseph Howse, who crossed it in 1809; Thompson had reached the pass two years earlier. The peak's east face holds the M-16 route, opened in March 1999 by Steve House, Scott Backes and Barry Blanchard, who turned back near the summit in stormy weather.

The easiest route starts with a 25 km hike up the Howse River, then climbs a glacier on the west side of the peak. The east face holds at least two difficult Grade V/VI technical routes, including M-16, opened in March 1999 by Steve House, Scott Backes and Barry Blanchard. Howse Peak rises over 1,600 m above the Mistaya River and Howse Pass within a few horizontal kilometres.

The east face's M-16 route, opened in March 1999 by Steve House, Scott Backes and Barry Blanchard, takes its name from the American army rifle, a nod to Blanchard being hit by a snow mushroom during the attempt. In April 2019 David Lama, Hansjörg Auer and Jess Roskelley finished a new line to the summit plateau and were killed by an avalanche on the descent; a photo on Roskelley's phone showed they had reached the top.