Voices

Early Vancouver’s Mountaineering Leader

Tom Fyles

Every group needs leaders – Tom Fyles assumed that role for mountaineers in Vancouver. He joined the B.C. Mountaineering Club in 1912, and was its leading climber for fourteen years. For much of that time he was the club’s highly-respected trip director. A postman by trade, his seemingly shy exterior concealed a passionate, energetic climber who recorded a long list of first ascents in the local mountains.