Pointy Peaks
The sharp tops of Mt. Athabasca and Hilda Peak caught my eye while driving the Icefields Parkway. The pointier the better eh! The famous Athabasca glacier is on the other side of them.
"Athabasca is derived from a Cree word meaning “where there are reeds.” This word was first used by fur-traders to describe northeast Alberta’s Athabasca Lake and ultimately found its way to the lake’s source in 1898 when Normal Collie, Herman Wooley and Hugh Stutfield christened the peak. Upon completing the first ascent of Mount Athabasca, Collie famously remarked: “The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, un-named, and unclimbed peaks.” The glaciated expanse discovered and described by Collie was the Columbia Icefield. Covering an area of about 325 square kilometers, this icefield is the largest in the Rocky Mountains."
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Have a wonderful Wednesday!
Pointy Peaks
The sharp tops of Mt. Athabasca and Hilda Peak caught my eye while driving the Icefields Parkway. The pointier the better eh! The famous Athabasca glacier is on the other side of them.
"Athabasca is derived from a Cree word meaning “where there are reeds.” This word was first used by fur-traders to describe northeast Alberta’s Athabasca Lake and ultimately found its way to the lake’s source in 1898 when Normal Collie, Herman Wooley and Hugh Stutfield christened the peak. Upon completing the first ascent of Mount Athabasca, Collie famously remarked: “The view that lay before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast ice-field probably never before seen by human eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, un-named, and unclimbed peaks.” The glaciated expanse discovered and described by Collie was the Columbia Icefield. Covering an area of about 325 square kilometers, this icefield is the largest in the Rocky Mountains."
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Have a wonderful Wednesday!