. The Rockies of Canada; . I Cana&a iea was riding by the north arete, impregi That this was a n may be r from the fact that :nown to b ral vertical cliffs on this mountain, and that a single impassable / meant a retu the way they had come, the certainty of spending altitude. .^ed v ing generally one at a time, we c ; foot by foot, now balanc 5000 feet of sr * iing down a broken wall-end, tl ible that liand¥]>^ Sout)m$$L^loPe of Mount Assiniboine. often half a dozen tM^t///,^/^. could be found; r hen tl 1 too jagged or King 01 >ng a tiny ledge or down the fa the cold butt res r finger &g
. The Rockies of Canada; . I Cana&a iea was riding by the north arete, impregi That this was a n may be r from the fact that :nown to b ral vertical cliffs on this mountain, and that a single impassable / meant a retu the way they had come, the certainty of spending altitude. .^ed v ing generally one at a time, we c ; foot by foot, now balanc 5000 feet of sr * iing down a broken wall-end, tl ible that liand¥]>^ Sout)m$$L^loPe of Mount Assiniboine. often half a dozen tM^t///,^/^. could be found; r hen tl 1 too jagged or King 01 >ng a tiny ledge or down the fa the cold butt res r finger >cant projection of some icj between tl lated with in the Ike surface must itred, its slip] iraversed 1 was found descent the ice-bound d 11 away upon 2000 feet 1 kill and :ve at every s half taken in that dis. accent of flDt. Brpce 247 unroped man who slipped would not inevitably havefollowed the rejected handholds and debris, thathurtled down in leaps and bounds to crash infragments on the rocks and boulders far below. No better idea of the difficulties frequently en-countered amongst these mountains can be gainedthan from Mr. Outrams description of his ascent ofMt. Bryce in August of the following year. Thismassive peak, estimated to be about 11,750 feet high,lies south of the great Columbia ice-fields, where theCanadian Rockies seem to attain the culmination oftheir grandeur. Having reached a point about tenthousand feet above sea-level, he and his guideChristian Kaufmann, found themselves at the base ofa nearly vertical cliff on a rocky arete. On the leftwas a sheer precipice several thousand feet high, andon the right, an unscalable cliff swept by fallingrocks. Quoting Mr. Outrams own words: Sothere was nothing for it but to try to scale the escarp-ment straight ahead, and Christian im
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