June 11 – September, 1909

In May 1909, Kinney learned that a very strong team composed of AL Mumm, G Hastings, LS Amery and M Inderbinen (a Swiss guide) were going to attempt Mount Robson that summer

August 13 – summit

Dr. Coleman had already arranged to try the ascent for the third time the year following, but was forstalled by the Rev. George B. Kinney, who had been a member of his party the two previous years, and who, it was understood, would also be a member of his party on this third attempt. Kinney, accompanied by a young Ontario river driver named Donald Phillips, a lad who had never climbed a mountain before, succeeded in reaching the summit, the ascent being made by the northwest and west faces. [Wheeler, Arthur. ACC/1911 expedition, 1911. CAJ, Vol 4]

On Friday, June 11th,” Kinney wrote in the report of his climb published in the Canadian Alpine Journal [Kinney and Phillips 1910], “with only two dollars and eighty-five cents in my pocket, but with three good horses packed with three months’ provisions, I started off alone (from Edmonton) for Mt. Robson, hoping to pick up someone on the trail to share fortune with me.”