Voices

Storyteller - Lid Hawkins

Mountaineering runs through three generations of Lid Hawkins’ family. Charles “Chappy” Chapman, Lid’s grandfather, was an early mountaineer and avid photographer. He recorded the first official ascent of Mount Seymour, one of the peaks overlooking Vancouver, on August 16, 1908. Exactly one hundred years later Lid and her brother Hugh Kellas returned to the peaks of Mount Seymour with “Popa’s” old camera, to trace the route of the original climb and re-create some of “Chappy’s” 1908 photographs.

Original accounts, read by Hugh Kellas, from Cabins, Camps and Climbs 1907-1911, Frank H. Smith. BCMC Journal 1907-1957.