Flying trestle bridge built by Donald “Curly” Phillips to enable packtrains to travel up the Valley of a Thousand Falls.
Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies [accessed 12 April 2025]
July 28 – August 9, 1913
The Alpine Club of Canada’s eighth camp, organized and superintended by Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945], was held in 1913 in the valley of Lake O’Hara. This “Cathedral Mountain Camp” was followed by a special camp for active members, held at Robson Pass from July 28 to August 9. Sixty-nine persons were in attendance for the full period. “The first complete recognized ascent and traverse of Mount Robson was made by one party” [1].
Selected attendees:
- Alpine Club of Canada [founded 1906] — sponsor
- Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] — director
- Byron Harmon [1876–1942] — photographer
- Robert Chamberlain Westover Lett [1870–1957] — Grand Trunk Pacific
- Moritz Inderbinen [1856–1926] — guide
- Conrad Kain [1883–1934] — guide, first ascent party, July 31
- Walter Schauffelberger [1881–1915] — guide
- Donald “Curly” Phillips [1884–1938] — packer
- Lawrence Johnstone Burpee [1873–1946]
- Basil Stewart Darling [1885–1962]
- Prof. Charles Ernest E. Fay [1846–1923]
- William Wasborough Foster [1875–1954] — First ascent party, July 31
- Frank Wilton W. Freeborn [1847–1919]
- Frederick William W. Godsal [1853–1935]
- Caroline B. B. Hinman [1884–1966]
- Albert H. MacCarthy [1876–1956] — First ascent party, July 31
- Mrs Charles H. Mitchell
- General Charles Hamilton Mitchell [1872–1941]
- Stanley Hamilton H. Mitchell [1863–1940]
- Arnold Louis Mumm [1859–1927]
- Elizabeth J. Parker [1856–1944]
- Harley H. Prouty [ca. 1857-1916]
- Margaret Stone
- Winthrop E. Ellsworth Stone [1862–1921]
- Preston Lambert Tait [1880–1970]
- Charles Doolittle Walcott [1850–1927]
- Helena Breeze Walcott [1894–1965]
- Paul Anthony Wilson Wallace [1891–1967]
- Horace Westmoreland
References:
- 1. Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The camps of the Alpine Club of Canada in 1913 and Mr. A.O. Wheeler’s exploratory work.” Alpine Journal, Vol. 28, No.198, London, England (1914):78