Mount Lucania

Mount Lucania

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Deep within the vast icefields of southwestern Yukon, Mount Lucania rises as one of the great giants of the Saint Elias Mountains. At roughly 5,240 meters (17,190 feet), it is generally ranked as the third-highest mountain in Canada, behind Mount Logan and Mount Saint Elias.

Despite its extraordinary height, Mount Lucania remains far less famous than either of those peaks. Its obscurity has less to do with the mountain itself than with its location. Lucania stands deep inside Kluane National Park and Reserve, surrounded by glaciers, high passes, and other enormous mountains with virtually no road access.

Its isolation helped produce one of the most remarkable stories in North American mountaineering. When Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates made the first ascent in 1937, changing glacier conditions prevented their aircraft from returning. After climbing Lucania, the pair had to escape on foot through more than 100 miles of largely unexplored wilderness.

Today, Mount Lucania remains a serious expedition peak—a remote world of ice, crevasses, storms, high altitude, and extraordinarily wild terrain.

⚡ Fast Facts

Feature	Details
Country	Canada
Territory	Yukon
Mountain Range	Saint Elias Mountains
Greater Range System	Alaska-Yukon Ranges
Protected Area	Kluane National Park and Reserve
Elevation	Approx. 17,190 ft / 5,240 m
Prominence	Approx. 10,016 ft / 3,053 m
Isolation	26.72 mi / 43 km
Parent Peak	Mount Logan – East Peak
Nearest Higher Neighbor (NHN)	Higher terrain on the Mount Logan massif
Coordinates	61.0215° N, 140.4661° W
First Ascent	July 9, 1937
First Ascenders	Bradford Washburn and Robert H. Bates
Named By	Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi
Name Origin	RMS Lucania
Notable Distinction	Third-highest mountain in Canada

Mount Lucania’s published elevation varies. Parks Canada has used figures around 5,226–5,231 meters, while Canadian topographic mapping interpreted by Peakbagger places the summit within a 5,240–5,280-meter contour. Mountain Field Guide uses approximately 5,240 meters while recognizing this uncertainty.

🗺️ Where Is Mount Lucania?

Mount Lucania stands in the Icefield Ranges of the Saint Elias Mountains in southwestern Yukon.

The mountain lies entirely within Canada and entirely within Kluane National Park and Reserve.

It occupies one of the most remote mountain environments on the continent. There are no roads anywhere near its base, and the interior of Kluane is generally reached either by aircraft or by lengthy wilderness expeditions.

The nearest practical communities are far to the east around Kluane Lake and Haines Junction.

Mount Lucania itself rises amid a continuous landscape of:

Enormous glaciers
Snowfields
High passes
Nunataks
Corniced ridges
Crevassed valleys
4,000- and 5,000-meter peaks

Its surroundings are so heavily glaciated that conventional ideas of a mountain “base” become difficult to apply.

Lucania rises from ice into more ice.

🏔️ Canada’s Third-Highest Mountain

Mount Lucania is generally regarded as the third-highest mountain in Canada.

Canada’s highest major summits begin with:

Mount Logan — 5,959 m
Mount Saint Elias — 5,489 m
Mount Lucania — approximately 5,240 m
King Peak — 5,173 m
Mount Steele — 5,073 m

There is an interesting distinction here.

Mount Saint Elias stands directly on the Canada–United States border, while Mount Lucania lies completely within Yukon.

That makes Lucania the second-highest mountain located entirely within Canada, exceeded only by Mount Logan.

It is also one of the highest major summits anywhere in North America, ranking below Denali, Logan, Saint Elias, and Mount Foraker.

🧭 Nearest Higher Neighbor: The Mount Logan Massif

The closest higher terrain to Mount Lucania lies on the enormous Mount Logan massif to the south.

Peakbagger calculates Lucania’s true topographic isolation at approximately 43 kilometers (26.72 miles).

Its line parent is Mount Logan’s East Peak, one of the many high summits forming Canada’s largest mountain massif.

Because the isolation limit falls on higher terrain associated with Logan rather than neatly on an independent named summit, describing Lucania’s NHN simply as Mount Logan is the clearest practical treatment.

Lucania’s approximately 3,053 meters (10,016 feet) of prominence is even more impressive.

That places it comfortably among the world’s ultra-prominent mountains, a category reserved for peaks possessing at least 1,500 meters of prominence.

Lucania exceeds that requirement by roughly double.

⛰️ Mount Lucania and Mount Steele

Mount Lucania is closely connected with nearby Mount Steele.

Steele rises to approximately 5,073 meters (16,644 feet) and stands less than ten miles from Lucania.

A long high ridge links the two mountains.

Their proximity has influenced the climbing history of both peaks.

Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates climbed Mount Steele immediately after making the first ascent of Lucania in 1937 as part of their extraordinary journey out of the mountains.

Later expeditions have similarly combined the two peaks or used the broad Lucania–Steele ridge system while moving through the area.

Mount Steele’s Nearest Higher Neighbor is Mount Lucania, making the geographical relationship between the two especially clear.

Together, they form one of the most impressive high-altitude mountain complexes in Yukon.

🪨 Geology of Mount Lucania

Mount Lucania belongs to one of the most tectonically active mountain systems in North America.

The Saint Elias Mountains are geologically young compared with many other ranges in Yukon.

They continue to experience uplift associated with the complicated interaction of crustal blocks and tectonic plates along the northwestern edge of North America.

The broader Saint Elias region is shaped by the ongoing collision of the Yakutat terrane with North America.

Compression thickens and deforms the crust, helping drive the tremendous uplift responsible for mountains such as Lucania, Logan, and Saint Elias.

But tectonic uplift is only half the story.

At the same time that geological forces push the mountains upward, glaciers attack them from virtually every direction.

The resulting landscape reflects a continuous contest between mountain building and erosion.

🧊 Sculpted by Ice

Mount Lucania exists within a landscape where glaciers are the dominant erosional force.

More than half of Kluane National Park and Reserve remains permanently covered by snow and ice, and some descriptions of the broader mountain-and-ice terrain place the proportion considerably higher.

The great Saint Elias icefields are among the largest concentrations of non-polar ice on Earth.

Moist Pacific air moves inland and is forced upward by the enormous Saint Elias Mountains.

Cooling air produces heavy snowfall at elevation.

Year after year, that snow accumulates and compresses into glacier ice.

The glaciers then move slowly downhill under their own weight.

In doing so, they:

Grind against bedrock
Widen valleys
Transport enormous quantities of rock
Create moraines
Cut cirques
Produce seracs
Open crevasses
Reshape entire drainage systems

Mount Lucania’s present form is therefore inseparable from the ice surrounding it.

🧊 Walsh Glacier

The Walsh Glacier played a defining role in the first ascent of Mount Lucania.

When Bradford Washburn began planning his expedition, the mountain’s remoteness created an enormous logistical problem.

A traditional overland approach would have required transporting climbing equipment and food for many miles across difficult wilderness before the actual ascent could even begin.

Washburn instead conceived a daring solution: land an airplane directly on a glacier near the mountain.

In 1937, that was an audacious idea.

Alaskan bush pilot Bob Reeve agreed to attempt it.

His now-famous response to Washburn’s proposal was essentially that if Washburn was willing to ride there, Reeve was willing to fly there.

The Walsh Glacier became the stage for one of the landmark aviation-assisted approaches in mountaineering history.

✈️ A Revolutionary Glacier Landing

Reeve flew Washburn and Bates into the mountains and landed his aircraft high on the Walsh Glacier.

At the time, using an airplane to place climbers directly onto a remote glacier was still highly experimental.

The landing itself succeeded.

Then the weather changed.

Warm temperatures, heavy rain, and rapidly deteriorating glacier conditions transformed the surface around the aircraft.

Crevasses opened across what had been the landing strip.

Reeve’s plane became trapped repeatedly in hidden cracks and soft snow.

Eventually he managed to take off.

But returning to the glacier was no longer considered safe.

Washburn and Bates were left behind.

Two additional expedition members who were supposed to be flown in never arrived.

The planned four-man expedition had suddenly become a two-man expedition—with no aircraft extraction.

🧗 The First Ascent

Despite realizing that they might have to escape the mountains entirely on foot, Bradford Washburn and Robert H. Bates continued toward Mount Lucania.

They had already invested years of planning in the objective.

More importantly, they understood that turning around immediately would not necessarily solve their predicament. They were already stranded deep in the Saint Elias icefields.

The two men therefore began climbing.

Their route took them through extensive glacier terrain toward the broad high slopes of Lucania.

Conditions included:

Deep snow
Hidden crevasses
High-altitude cold
Corniced ridges
Heavy loads
Unknown terrain

After approximately 20 days in the mountains, Washburn and Bates reached the summit on July 9, 1937.

They had completed the first ascent of what was then considered the highest unclimbed mountain in North America.

But reaching the summit was only the beginning of their adventure.

🥾 Escape from Lucania

The story of the first ascent became legendary largely because of what happened afterward.

There was no airplane waiting for Washburn and Bates.

The deteriorated Walsh Glacier made a return flight impractical.

The climbers therefore faced an extraordinary problem:

They had to walk out of one of the most remote mountain regions on the continent.

Their escape eventually covered more than 100 miles of glaciers, mountain passes, rivers, tundra, and wilderness.

Navigation was extremely difficult.

Much of the terrain had never been accurately explored on foot.

Their food supply steadily diminished.

They crossed dangerous rivers and traveled through regions where even choosing the wrong valley could have created serious consequences.

At one stage, Bates supplemented their dwindling supplies by shooting small game.

The journey became one of the classic wilderness survival stories in mountaineering history.

🏔️ And Then They Climbed Mount Steele

As if the first ascent of Lucania and the prospect of a 100-mile wilderness escape were not enough, Washburn and Bates added another mountain to their expedition.

They climbed nearby Mount Steele.

Their ascent became the mountain’s second recorded climb.

The decision sounds almost unbelievable from a modern perspective.

Yet the ridge system around Steele offered part of the practical route toward terrain from which the climbers hoped eventually to reach inhabited country.

The pair ultimately crossed glaciers and rivers before reaching safety.

Their journey inspired David Roberts’ later book Escape from Lucania, which helped introduce the expedition to a new generation of readers.

📜 How Mount Lucania Got Its Name

Mount Lucania was named long before anyone climbed it.

On July 31, 1897, Italian explorer and mountaineer Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, stood on the summit of Mount Saint Elias after leading its first successful ascent.

Looking across the enormous Saint Elias icefields, he observed previously unnamed high peaks in the distance.

One became Mount Bona.

Another became Mount Lucania.

The Duke named it after the RMS Lucania, the Cunard ocean liner that had carried his expedition across the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York.

Thus one of Canada’s wildest and most isolated mountains took its name from a luxury passenger ship.

The contrast is striking.

The Lucania represented late-19th-century engineering, speed, transatlantic travel, and modernity.

Mount Lucania represented almost the opposite: a place so remote that it would remain unclimbed for another 40 years.

🚢 RMS Lucania

RMS Lucania was one of the great Cunard liners of the late Victorian era.

Launched in 1893, the vessel carried passengers across the Atlantic between Europe and North America.

For a time, Lucania and her sister ship Campania were among the fastest passenger liners in the world.

The Duke of the Abruzzi traveled aboard Lucania while journeying toward his expedition to Mount Saint Elias.

When he later spotted the distant Yukon summit, the ship’s name provided his inspiration.

The naming creates a fascinating historical link between the golden age of ocean travel and the golden age of mountain exploration.

🧗 The Second Ascent

For three decades after Washburn and Bates stood on Lucania’s summit, the mountain remained unclimbed a second time.

That changed in 1967.

A team including Gerry Roach, Mike Humphreys, Gary Lukis, and Jerry Halpern returned to the Lucania–Steele region.

The climbers initially dealt with problems familiar from the 1937 expedition: aircraft access, complicated glaciers, and deep snow.

They eventually established a route along the mountain’s northern side.

After climbing Mount Steele, the team continued toward Lucania.

On July 8, they climbed the upper north face and reached the summit shortly before another storm arrived.

The ascent reinforced Lucania’s reputation as a mountain that demands far more than technical climbing ability alone.

Simply reaching and leaving the mountain safely remains a central part of the challenge.

👩‍🦰 First All-Woman Team Ascent

Mount Lucania added another chapter to its climbing history in 2021.

Canadian mountaineers Pascale Marceau and Eva Capozzola became the first all-woman team known to summit the mountain.

Their expedition again emphasized Lucania’s defining characteristic: remoteness.

The pair flew into the upper Donjek Glacier region, hauled sleds and heavy packs across crevassed terrain, acclimatized in the high mountains, and then moved toward Lucania.

They reached the summit in April 2021.

Although many famous mountains now attract hundreds or even thousands of climbers each year, Lucania continues to see relatively few expeditions.

Every successful climb remains a significant undertaking.

🥾 Climbing Mount Lucania Today

Mount Lucania is an expedition objective for highly experienced mountaineers.

The mountain’s standard lines do not necessarily involve the sustained vertical rock climbing found on some great technical peaks, but the overall seriousness is extremely high.

Climbers should be capable of:

Roped glacier travel
Crevasse rescue
Snow and ice climbing
Avalanche assessment
High-altitude acclimatization
Cold-weather camping
Ski or snowshoe travel
Navigation in whiteouts
Wilderness first aid
Expedition self-rescue

Parks Canada stresses that parties traveling through the Icefield Ranges must be capable of handling emergencies independently.

Formal rescue may be delayed by distance, storms, or poor flying weather.

That makes judgment and self-sufficiency every bit as important as climbing ability.

⚠️ Major Hazards

The hazards on Mount Lucania begin well before the summit slopes.

Crevasses

The surrounding glaciers contain extensive crevasse systems.

Snow bridges can conceal openings large enough to swallow climbers and sleds.

Avalanches

Fresh snowfall, wind loading, warming temperatures, and steep slopes can produce serious avalanche danger.

Seracs

Glaciers may contain unstable towers and cliffs of ice capable of collapsing without warning.

Cornices

Wind-built snow overhangs can form along ridges and may break much farther back from the apparent edge than expected.

Weather

Storms can produce prolonged whiteouts, heavy snowfall, high winds, and extreme cold.

Remoteness

Perhaps the greatest hazard is that all of these problems occur extremely far from ordinary assistance.

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🌨️ Weather on Mount Lucania

The Saint Elias Mountains intercept huge quantities of Pacific moisture.

When moist air reaches the range, it is forced upward.

As it cools, precipitation falls heavily across the mountains—often as snow at higher elevations.

The result is a region famous for:

Deep snow
Long storms
Strong winds
Whiteouts
Rapid temperature changes
Heavy glacier accumulation

Even during the main climbing season, winter-like conditions are possible.

Clear skies can also produce intense solar radiation on the snow and dramatically warmer daytime conditions.

The 1937 expedition demonstrated just how quickly conditions can change. Warm summer weather and rain deteriorated the Walsh Glacier sufficiently to transform an aircraft landing zone into an obstacle course of crevasses.

📅 Best Climbing Season

Parks Canada describes the normal climbing season in Kluane’s Icefield Ranges as generally extending from mid-April through late June.

Earlier travel usually means colder conditions but potentially stronger snow bridges.

Later travel can bring warmer temperatures, softer snow, increased crevasse exposure, and greater difficulty operating aircraft on glaciers.

Conditions vary significantly from year to year.

For a mountain as remote as Lucania, climbers should never select dates solely from historical averages.

Current snowpack, weather patterns, glacier conditions, aircraft availability, and Parks Canada requirements all need to be considered.

✈️ Getting to Mount Lucania

There is no trailhead for Mount Lucania.

There is not even a road close to the mountain.

Parks Canada notes that access to the Icefield Ranges generally requires an hour or more of aircraft travel or one to two weeks of overland travel from the nearest road.

Most modern climbing teams therefore rely on ski-equipped aircraft.

Aircraft may depart from locations such as:

Haines Junction
Burwash Landing
Whitehorse
Other approved regional airfields

Exact glacier landing locations depend on the expedition route, snow conditions, aircraft capabilities, and permits.

Weather delays should be expected.

A team may reach the mountain later than planned or remain on the glacier for days after its intended pickup.

Extra food and fuel are essential.

🎒 Mountaineering Permits

Mount Lucania lies inside the regulated Icefield Ranges of Kluane National Park and Reserve.

Anyone spending time within the Icefield Ranges must obtain a mountaineering permit.

Current requirements include advance application and registration.

Parks Canada also requires an aircraft access permit for every landing within the icefields.

Mountaineering expeditions must carry qualifying rescue insurance.

As of the current Parks Canada rules, travel within the icefields is prohibited between November 15 and April 9.

Because regulations, fees, and access arrangements can change, prospective climbers should always verify requirements directly with Parks Canada before planning an expedition.

🏞️ Kluane National Park and Reserve

Mount Lucania lies within Kluane National Park and Reserve, one of Canada’s great wilderness landscapes.

The park contains 17 of Canada’s 20 highest mountains.

Its Icefield Ranges include:

Together they form an extraordinary concentration of 4,000- and 5,000-meter peaks.

Mountains and ice dominate Kluane’s interior, while lower elevations contain forests, tundra, rivers, lakes, and exceptionally rich wildlife habitat.

🌎 UNESCO World Heritage Site

Kluane also forms part of the vast Kluane/Wrangell-St. Elias/Glacier Bay/Tatshenshini-Alsek World Heritage Site.

The international property spans protected lands in Yukon, British Columbia, and Alaska.

UNESCO recognizes the region for its extraordinary combination of:

Active tectonic processes
Mountain building
Glaciation
Huge icefields
Rivers
Coastal environments
Ecological succession
Wildlife
Exceptional natural beauty

More than 200 glaciers occur across the broader World Heritage landscape.

Together, these protected areas preserve one of the greatest mountain-and-ice wildernesses remaining on Earth.

🪶 Indigenous Landscape

Kluane National Park and Reserve lies within the traditional territories of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and Kluane First Nation.

The region is not an empty wilderness discovered by mountaineers in the 20th century.

Southern Tutchone peoples have lived throughout the broader Kluane landscape for generations, traveling through valleys, hunting, fishing, gathering plants, maintaining trails, and developing detailed knowledge of the land.

Modern management of Kluane reflects this history.

Parks Canada works cooperatively with First Nations governments in protecting the park and its natural and cultural heritage.

Mount Lucania’s extreme icefield location means it occupies a very different environment from the inhabited valleys farther east, but it remains part of this larger cultural landscape.

🌿 Flora and Fauna

Virtually no ordinary plant or animal life exists on Mount Lucania’s upper slopes.

At elevations above 5,000 meters, the environment is dominated by:

Glacier ice
Permanent snow
Bare rock
Wind
Extreme cold

But the dramatic elevation gradient surrounding the Saint Elias Mountains produces remarkably diverse ecosystems at lower elevations.

Kluane is an ecological meeting place where Pacific and Arctic air masses interact.

The result is one of northern Canada’s richest combinations of plant and animal communities.

🌲 Plant Life

Lower valleys and slopes within Kluane support montane forests dominated by:

White spruce
Trembling aspen
Balsam poplar

Near treeline, forests become shorter and more scattered.

Shrubs include:

Willow
Dwarf birch
Alder

Treeline generally occurs between approximately 1,050 and 1,200 meters depending on local conditions.

Above roughly 1,400 meters, alpine tundra becomes dominant.

More than 200 varieties of alpine flora occur within the park.

These can include grasses, sedges, wildflowers, lichens, and low-growing plants adapted to a short growing season.

Continue upward toward Lucania and the vegetation eventually disappears beneath permanent snow and ice.

🐏 Wildlife

Kluane supports an extraordinary collection of northern mammals.

Species include:

Dall sheep
Mountain goats
Grizzly bears
Black bears
Moose
Caribou
Wolves
Wolverines
Lynx
Coyotes
Red foxes
Arctic ground squirrels
Pikas
Snowshoe hares
Beavers
Otters

Dall sheep are particularly characteristic of the park.

Kluane supports important sheep populations on windswept mountain slopes where relatively shallow snow allows them to reach winter forage.

Mountain goats occupy rugged cliffs, while grizzly bears move between valleys and alpine habitats as food availability changes through the seasons.

Few large mammals venture into the central icefields surrounding Mount Lucania.

There simply is not enough food to support them there.

🦅 Birds

Kluane’s forests, wetlands, alpine tundra, and cliffs also support extensive birdlife.

Species recorded within the wider park include:

Golden eagles
Bald eagles
Gyrfalcons
Peregrine falcons
Trumpeter swans
Ptarmigan
Ravens
Numerous migratory songbirds

Golden eagles are particularly associated with the open mountain landscapes of Kluane.

Some birds may cross high alpine and glacier terrain, but the immediate summit environment of Lucania remains one of the harshest biological environments in Canada.

🧊 A World of Surging Glaciers

Kluane contains the greatest concentration of surging glaciers in North America.

Most glaciers move relatively slowly.

Surging glaciers behave differently.

For years or decades, ice can accumulate in an upper reservoir zone.

Then the glacier abruptly accelerates.

During a surge, portions of the glacier may move dozens or even around 100 times faster than their normal rate.

The result can be chaotic.

Crevasses open.

Seracs form.

Ice piles against valley walls.

Entire glacier surfaces become fractured and almost impassable.

For mountaineers, these changes matter enormously.

A route across a glacier that was practical during one expedition may become extremely dangerous years later.

The Mount Lucania region is therefore a landscape where historic route descriptions always have to be interpreted cautiously.

👀 Can You See Mount Lucania Without Climbing It?

Seeing Mount Lucania from the ground is difficult.

Unlike mountains located near highways or populated valleys, Lucania rises deep within Kluane’s icefields.

There is no roadside viewpoint at its base.

The most practical way for non-climbers to appreciate the mountain is generally flightseeing.

Flights from the Kluane region can provide extraordinary views across the Saint Elias Mountains when weather permits.

From the air, the scale of the landscape becomes clear.

Mount Lucania rises amid a seemingly endless collection of glaciers and high peaks, with Mount Steele nearby and the vast Mount Logan massif dominating the southern horizon.

Weather can cancel or alter flights, so clear views are never guaranteed.

⛰️ Nearby Mountains

Mount Lucania sits among many of Canada’s highest mountains.

Mount Logan

Canada’s highest mountain reaches 5,959 meters approximately south of Lucania.

The Logan massif contains Lucania’s nearest higher terrain and is its topographic parent.

Mount Steele

Mount Steele rises to 5,073 meters immediately east of Lucania.

The two mountains are connected by a high ridge and share intertwined climbing histories.

King Peak

King Peak reaches 5,173 meters and ranks immediately below Lucania among Canada’s highest summits.

It stands near the Mount Logan massif and possesses a dramatically steep profile.

Mount Wood

Mount Wood rises to approximately 4,842 meters northeast of the central icefields.

It is another of Yukon’s exceptionally high and remote Saint Elias peaks.

Mount Saint Elias

Farther south, Mount Saint Elias reaches 5,489 meters on the Alaska–Yukon boundary.

It was from the summit of Saint Elias in 1897 that the Duke of the Abruzzi first saw and named Mount Lucania.

📊 Mount Lucania vs. Mount Logan

Although both peaks rise within Kluane National Park, they are very different mountains.

Feature	Mount Lucania	Mount Logan
Elevation	~5,240 m	5,959 m
Canadian Rank	3rd	1st
Prominence	~3,053 m	~5,250 m
First Ascent	1937	1925
Location	Entirely in Yukon	Entirely in Yukon
General Character	Remote steep glaciated peak	Immense multi-summit massif

Mount Logan is far larger and higher.

Lucania, however, possesses its own remarkable combination of height, prominence, and isolation.

Its relative lack of fame may actually reinforce its wilderness character.

⭐ Why Mount Lucania Is Special

Mount Lucania is one of those rare mountains whose statistics would make it famous almost anywhere else.

It is roughly 17,200 feet high.

It is Canada’s third-highest mountain.

It has more than 10,000 feet of topographic prominence.

It rises amid one of the largest non-polar icefield systems on Earth.

Yet it remains largely unknown outside mountaineering circles.

Its isolation has always defined it.

The Duke of the Abruzzi could only name Lucania from a distant summit in 1897.

Four decades later, Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates needed an experimental glacier landing simply to reach it.

When that aircraft could not return, their climb became an extraordinary wilderness escape spanning more than 100 miles.

Even today, reaching Lucania involves aircraft logistics, glacier travel, permits, rescue insurance, extensive expedition experience, and a willingness to operate for weeks in an environment where outside assistance may be delayed.

That is Mount Lucania’s enduring appeal.

It is not simply one of Canada’s highest mountains.

It is one of the country’s great remaining expedition peaks—a mountain where getting there, climbing it, and getting home are all parts of the adventure.

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