Identifier: climbsexploratio00stut (find matches)
Title: Climbs & exploration in the Canadian Rockies
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Stutfield, Hugh Edward Millington, 1858-1929. (from old catalog) Collie, Norman, 1859-1942, joint author
Subjects: Rocky mountains Mountaineering
Publisher: London, New York and Bombay, Longmans, Green and co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a differentAthabasca pass from the one that now bearsthe name, and which Professor Coleman un-doubtedly visited. The first alternative seemedimpossible; the second was the less improbableof the two, as it was difficult to understand howDouglas and Thompson, scientists both of them,could have made such glaring errors as to thealtitude of these mountains. That peaks whichhad appeared in every map of Canada for thepast sixty years as the loftiest in the Dominion,and which most Canadians still believed in as intheir Bibles—that these peaks were not, afterall, so high as thousands of others in the mainrange, seemed almost incredible. As a Mani-toba paper observed. Mount Brown and MountHooker had been attractively mysterious to atleast two generations of Canadians; and theDominion could not surrender without astruggle its claim to possess the highest crests 1 Memoir, Historical and Political, on the North-West Coastof North America and the Adjacent Territories, 1840/ by RobertGreenhow. 70
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MOUNTS BROWN AND HOOKER of the Rocky Mountain system. It may bementioned, further, that some travellers fromEdmonton, who visited the Athabasca Pass inthe spring of 1898, asserted that they had seenMount Brown and Mount Hooker standingthere in their old pride of place, and theyscouted the idea of their being frauds. Altogether there seemed enough doubtabout the matter to make further investigationdesirable. There was, at any rate, one loftysnow-clad peak somewhere in that untroddenland to the north ; and, if this did not turn cutto be either of the missing giants, so much thebetter, as in that case it must be some new andunknown mountain. There would certainly beplenty of virgin summits to climb, and the plane-table survey could also be extended and finished. In the spring, therefore. Collie, feeling drawnby the fascination of those wild western valleysirresistibly back to the Canadian Rockies, laidhis plans for another trip. Stutfield, beingasked to accompany him, accepted the invita

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