Times

13 First Ascents

The summer mountaineering camp in 1965 perhaps was typical of the times. Participants drove from Vancouver in convoy to the Chilcotin, then hired a small plane to bring them to the Ape Lake area. The group got in 10 clear days of climbing, complained of ascending a “modest” total of 15 peaks – but brightened as they realized that 13 of these were first ascents.

Barry Hagen Collection, BCMC 69-04.