NE of Mount Robson
53.0833 N 119.0833 W — Map 83E/3 — Google — GeoHack — Bivouac
Name officially adopted in 1923
Official in BC – Canada
Elevation: 3408 m
Coleman’s map of Mount Robson 1910
Collie’s map Yellowhead Pass 1912
Jobe’s map Jarvis Pass to Yellowhead 1915
Summit of Mt. Resplendent. The Ice Horn
Photo: Byron Harmon, 1913
Canadian Alpine Journal 1915
Mount Robson – Glacier looking towards Resplendent
William James Topley, 1914
Library and Archives Canada
“Named, and well named, by Coleman,” wrote Arthur Oliver Wheeler [1860–1945] in the report of his 1911 expedition to the Mount Robson area. “On the east side it is clad from top to bottom in pure white snow, and presents with the sun shining upon it a spectacle of such wonderful brilliance that the aptness of the name became immediately apparent. It rose in great snow masses and ice walls sheer to the summit, and showed several of the largest and widest bergschrunds I have ever seen in the Rockies. Enormous cornices overhung on the north and east sides. Later, the mountain was ascended by Konrad Kain and Byron Harmon. It proved to be altogether a snow and ice climb, and Konrad reported having seen some of the greatest ice cracks he had met with throughout the course of his professional experience. The crest of the mountain he described as an immense cornice reaching far out into space over the depths below.”
The name was officially adopted in 1923 as labelled on
Wheeler’s 1912 topographic map of Mount Robson.
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- Alpine Club of Canada [1906–]. “Exploration in the Yellowhead.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 3 (1911):117
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The mountains of the Yellowhead Pass.” Alpine Journal, Vol. 26, No.198 (1912):382
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver [1860–1945]. “The Alpine Club of Canada’s expedition to Jasper Park, Yellowhead Pass and Mount Robson region, 1911.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 4 (1912):9-80
- Mitchell, Charles Hamilton [1872–1941]. “Mt. Resplendent and the routes of ascent.” Canadian Alpine Journal, Vol. 6 (1914–1915):50–58