Extinguisher Tower

“At a bold tower of rock, which had been nicknamed the Extinguisher, the Robson glacier widens out and bends nearly at a right angle toward the main peak,” wrote Arthur Coleman on his pioneering visit to the area in 1908.

“On the cirque immediately below Mount Resplendent stands a quaint tower of rock some 500 feet above the ice, named the Extinguisher from its likeness to the conical cap once used to put out the candle,” wrote Elizabeth Parker, a member of the Alpine Club of Canada’s 1913 camp at Robson Pass. Smithsonian Institution director Charles D. Walcott called it the most valuable spot in the Rockies to geologists.

Coleman, Arthur Philemon, 1852-1939. The Canadian Rockies: new and old trails. Toronto: Henry Frowde, 1911.
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Parker, Elizabeth. “A new field for mountaineering.” Scribner’s Magazine 55 (1914).

Walcott, Charles D. “The monarch of the Canadian Rockies.” National Geographic Magazine (1913).