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Thanks for the heads up on the pictures. I wasn't sure of the one for Mount Nirvana, it seems to be sort of a mystery mountain with very little online data. Some of the pictures I found were from the website below. Mount Fairweather is the highest point in B.C., Mount Waddinton is the highest peak that lies entirely in B.C.. Fairweather straddles the border with Alaska. Mount Waddintons elevation is 4019m (13186ft) while the point on Fairweather is 4663m (15,300ft).

http://www.summitsofcanada.ca/canatrek/summits/nwt.html

It's interesting that the NWT peaks still has no official name. The account of the first ascent is at:
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/docum ... _33-37.pdf

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That would be awesome. Except that I don't think the summit would be hard to get to since there would be so many flies there they would lift you up and carry you to the summit...before they ate you that is.

Thanks Damien - that was an interesting read.

Enjoyed the original TR from it. I was lucky enough to find the first edition AAC book on the Columbia mountains.


It would be a shame to bypass everything in BC for one peak, it is home to the finest mountains in North America. Maybe the highpoints could be broken down by range/subrange.

summit log atop PEI's

Would love to see a SP page for Nova Scotia's to get more detail on the trail to its hp summit

Yea there's a pretty good description in the book 'Not Won In A Day, Climbing Canadas High Points'. But it's been quite a few years since it was written and the poor condition of the trail out there may have worsened or been improved since then.

James_W wrote:

It would be a shame to bypass everything in BC for one peak, it is home to the finest mountains in North America.

And from my experience (in BC) while our mountains tend not to be super high, they are steep and can take some work to access.

I just got educated. I thought there were only four Canadian provences: Yukon, BC, AB, and everything else to the right of that.

Bill Kerr wrote:

That scares me in the comfort of my own home.

Some highpointing friends of mine reached Ishpatina, Ontario about a year ago as part of a canoe trip. Sounded like quite the adventure. Like others have said, not so much the climb itself, but the logistics of getting there.

The raw expense of pursuing the Canadian high points puts a lot of people off who could do it. When you measure the expense of attaining something like Mt Barbeau and consider that you could probably run amok in Chile for a month for the same price really makes it a hard sell. Still, for the people who do it my hat is off to them. One look at Waddington makes me want to scream like a tween girl at a Justin Bieber concert, and not in a good way.

Damien Gildea wrote:It's interesting that the NWT peaks still has no official name. The account of the first ascent is at:
http://www.americanalpineclub.org/docum ... _33-37.pdf

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Info and pics from a recent visit to Mt Nirvana, now being named Thunder Mountain:

http://publications.americanalpineclub. ... er-Ascents