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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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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suggestion evoked such strong opposition(and language) from Pe5rto that it was promptlyabandoned, and we had to make beasts of burdenof ourselves and him. The creek issues from aglacier descending from a group of mountainslying between two branches of the AthabascaRiver. This group has three principal summits,of which the northernmost (Diadem we called it)is the curious snow-crowned peak we had seenfrom Wild Sheep Hills. The central andhighest summit was subsequently named byCollie after Woolley, and the third after Stut-field. These two last mountains appeared tohave been conducting themselves in a mosterratic manner in bygone ages. A tremendousrock-fall had evidently taken place from theirugly bare limestone cliffs ; and the whole valley,nearly half a mile wide, was covered to a depthof some hundreds of feet with boulders anddebris. What had happened, apparently, wasthis. The immense amount of rock that had fallen on the glacier below Peak Stutfield had 126 Gorge in Sun Wapta Valley
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From the Slopes of Dl\dem Peak (Looking South) THE ASCENT OF DIADEM prevented the ice from melting. Consequentlythe glacier, filling up the valley to a depth of atleast two hundred feet, had moved bodily down;and its snout, a couple of hundred feet high,covered with blocks of stone the size of smallhouses, was playing havoc with the pine-woodsbefore it and on either side. In our united ex-periences, extending over the Alps, the Caucasus,the Himalaya, and other mountain ranges, wehad never seen indications of a landslide on socolossal a scale.^ We selected a spot for our bivouac at thefoot of the Diadem glacier, and slept soundlyon our beds of heather and pine twigs till wewere woke by the rain pattering down on oursleeping-bags. The weather had changed forthe worse, and the pale, sickly light of a mostunpromising dawn had overspread the sky whenwe left the sleeping-place, with the intentionof climbing Mount Woolley. Our idea wasto ascend a steep glacier by means of a some-what formida

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