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I took this photo in 1974 during my first climbing trip to British Columbia.
The great north face of Mt. Robson (12,972 ft, 3954 m), hidden by clouds at top of the photo,
feeds a glacier which calves small ice bergs into the aptly named Berg Lake.
You can hike up the mountainside on the other side of the lake from Robson and get a grand view of
the the entire Robson massif, which rises 7,600 feet above the lake. In was on
this trip that I climbed my first real mountain, nearby Mt. Resplendent.
I don't know if this is still the policy today, but when we
stopped at the ranger station that administers this area to see if we
needed any sort of backpacking or climbing permit (as is invariably the
case in the U.S.), the ranger just said, “No, we don't have any
funds or personnel for rescues, so we don't even want to know you're in
there. Have a good time!” That's the way
it should be: let climbers and other adventurers be responsible
for themselves.
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