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t;uupicd high upon the big glacier three diiierent times,
ut:ly to be driven buck by storms. We succeeded in making
tut, splendid climb, up the great cliffs of ice and snow on
thtlt east side, reaching an altitude of 111,51X) fw•t the first
tine•, oras high as 1ht-t.ip of \tr.unt Stephen, and 11.700
feet or •Iitghtr•-•than anoint Temple, -thea second attempt.
All day long} on. each . trip we .labored "among extreme
-dangers if avalanche auul.cri•vass.,.bnt,our efforts to reach.
.the 1feak that year .were r(,t cri.wpetl with succeks.' y•
Failing as a.party, h nuule•a two-day.lry up. the rock•
face of thy Borth sht;ulder 1 the. mountain by myself: - I
,skid on a_stiow-eovereil ledge, -1.6(y) feet above tree line,
and then toiled on -the next tier till.the middle of the after-.
pooh, rcai•hitrg ' art altitude of neatly .,1.1.1101 feet, ,lut•
a blizzard' drove me- down. so that -.attempt \failed also.
This 'year, ItNM),• hearing that --
an .\n.Irrican party was-als,ut to •
slDt•t rltt• ;pia -pied prize„ And. being.
unable u, obtain.,conipanions 1 rya
_party, l got together a pae•k train
of three horse: and three months'
prI isii ms and hit Edmonton alone
t(rral,ture the mountain. hoping
to :pick tip a cOnnlanion..un the
Kati:•
Countless difficulties retarded
my proere•sv:' -horses would get
• stuck in the muskegs ant) • packs
ante off; 11(xxled rivers hart to be
• crossed. in one of which J• nearly
lost tm• whole outfit.'
• At the place where t'swanl.ihy
horses across the. .\thabasea:'-1 •
fort inatcly fell iii, with Donald
Phillips a young Ontario guide,
—and persuaded bin( to; .gt along
with ntc.
We folloteed the route of 'the -
Grand Trunk 'Pacific ostet the
Yellow Head and down the Fraser
as far as the .hoose.:River, .which
we followed to Mouse Pass, and
from'there we reached the east side
Mount Robson -by .way of the
rokcy.
'A yea fore when 1 went up
the valley -of t 1 u,ldec jtI)1.
Coleman and par • , • a ferritiitbc
electrical storm was raging; ft,llos--
e(l by _a (heavy Rill of snow. Ilut
this year Phillips and- 1 found the
plate 11...uled• with glorious sun.
shine•and a Cloudless sky; and as we
swung - -around a promontory,- six
trifles away Mount Rolismii stood
a startling wonder -of mighty height
and dazzling puritro
On Saturday, Jtily twenty-
fourth, Phillips ani 1 made our
pertnan(•nt camp at tree line, on
the mirth shotflder of Mount ]toh-
e(tn. \1•e .turned our hotsser,��t.riose
to wander where they�palei soil and'
for three creeks- th((i• ' fattened on
the sleet grasks of the -mountain
meadows. •
•Monday dawns.) tine and clear.
Shoul•lt•ring our Bravo packs,- we
climbed the cliffs and rolled up in
our blankets that night in a shelter:
ed milk on the west side. nearly
left thousatul feet above the sea.
The next day we fought -our Way
up the almost vertical north ,side
the peakand -chopped our way
up steep lee of its couloirs, but
by three hx•k we had attained
. an altitude o much more than
eleeen thousand po we re-
turned to the p ettnanett amp at
the' foot of the mountain re-
provision fur another trip.
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Peerless
Male Quartette
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Opera House Mort,
i'hone 104 (Kingston Street
place was filled with snow and ice,
and so fearful was the work of step -
cutting in theice that it was after-
noon before we had climbed , higher
than 12.000 feet, That northern
the Psaservalfey lay open below ns like.a map ani the mighty
Fraser was but a tiny, crooked thtead 'of silver. Then the
valleys disappeared and we were alone Witlt the stars atfd-
, the snow-white peaks and the grinding avalanches.
Friday, August thirteenth, dawned clear and cold, and
edge of the peak. seemed only a few: by thew -ire the sun rose we were on our way to the peak._
hundred feet alcove us when`wc.turn-
cd back for.camp..
• At a little below eleven thousand
feet 1 k•ft Phillips in charge of the
packs and.set ori to explore a better
route for our ,next climb. Following
a ledge around to the west and south
for Bali a mile. •I rounded the north-
western shoulder to find. that the
great west side orthe peak offered far better climbing than
the cliffs of the north. and hope sprang up afresh _in my
heart. :111 we'nceded was }food weather.
That little side trip had so delayed us allot it was long
after dark before Phillips and I got back to "Camp Higher-
up" on thelittic ledge, so we had to spend another wrethed
nightin ttfe-eeld. A snowstorm rose in the night, and bk.
early daylight the drip from the rooks above us had so
soaked our bedding t]g:at cold, wet and breerkfastless we
were finalLy routed froni our little • bed and, plunging
through t&, screaming -gale. sought the comforts. of. our
camp at the foot of the mountain. .
• From July thirtieth to August ninth, it stormed ir1-
cessantlf•,on the mountain ----:1's we were almost completely
out of ' provisioes, we spent the .time in exploring the
The many cliffs we had to clinlli were only from ten to a
•hundred feet high, but .those hard, smoothy -icy slopes
between were tipped at an angle of from fifty to seventy
degrees.One slip on the part 116 either Of Us meant a fearful
slide to. deatluirousands,,of feet below.
The storm -clouds of sleet swept down and engulfed es
while we were at little more than eleven thousand feet
altitude. We had not enough provisions for another two-
day. climb. This was our last possible chance and we de-
spaired of"ever reaching the peak. But fortunately, though
the clouds were very 'dense and cold, but little snow fell.
The storm-w;is a blessing in a way', for though it spoiled our
chance of getting pictures, it shutout of iii@w• those fearful
sheer slopes-txtow.
In live hours of steady work we reached the peak.
The clouds broke open for one brief minute, revealing to
us a wonder world, with the Fraser more than 11,000 feet,.
beneath us: then the stor eswepit in worse than ever:: --
•It took, us seven hours to reach our "highest -up"
camp, so dangerous had .the softened slopes become on ac-
count of the storm, and by the time We reached our camp in
the. valley the had
had cost us twenty hoglrs of hard
work --but we had finally. captured Mount Robson for our
country and the Alpine Club of Canada. .
Our provisions Were gone, and
we were hundreds of miles from
• Wednesday night, July twenty-
eighth found us camped oft t►narrow icdgc�everal lltilldred county ant'gcrtmg•whatevcr-gatne Rg_t..............
ald find, ptarmic
feet higher tha- our high-up camp of the Monday before. gam Ube grouse. marmots and gophers. E n'August ninth,'
While eating our supper of warmed-over lx•ans an'd though the weather was still very unsettled. we sought to
stew; we feasted our eyes on the wonderful scenes around u•s: 'make our" highest-up''campoa the '
With only one or two exceptions, the peaks -were Al on a- knob of the northwest shoulder.
level with or below us. Countless glaciers of purest v.hite. V*e each carried a fifty-pouridl pack
hung in long crystal curtaifis from the peaks and dotted un -our back to an altitude of 'ten
theiandscape for hundreds of miles as far as the eye could thousand, feet, when a fierce bliz-
see, as if a mighty tea (.f swirling billows had been turned card suddenly stopped our work.
to stone anal its foaming fury to ice. The setting sun had Three inches of snow fell in the first
bathed this scene in a flood of red and gold. But the ten minutes. Realizing our danger,
blues shaded off into purples, and the purples to deepest for avalanches were already roaring
indigo till the gathering night rose .sot of the- s afleys, about us, we cached our packs in a
eigl• t thousand feet below, and changed those gorgeous nichein thecliffs and hurtle t no
sunset tints to sombre blacks and 'greys, save where the'small risk, sought th valley belo
snow -fields gleamed under the light of the suits. We r Three -days later we succeeded
wrapped ourselves in rabbit -skin robes and eiderdowns t� in worrying our packs up to the
keep out the` biting cold, tk•hile the wind, though only a " knob," between 10,500 and 10,- '
zephyr in the valley below and coming out of a fine weather . 700 feet altitude, on the west,
sky, drowned the orchestia of a thousand waterfalls and where we succeeded in 'making a
swept our high-up shelf with the fury of a fierce g le, while bed on a snow-covered shelf: Our
gmand then the avalanche boomed and roare . Then sleeping place that night, •$s to
the early morning brought again the son and panted the altitude and surroundings., would
scene anew. Oh, it was well worth the desperate ght,juht closely resemble the very peak of
to see the sun so rjse and set.,'t Sir Donald or• Stephen. excepting
ev
1n that early morning Tight we tackled a nti route up that the valleys belowus were much
y_deeper And. At the low altitasrlr of
nine o'clock we had attained an altitude.: equal to the little more than two thousand feet.
highest we had reached Tucgdav, July twenty-sevinth, over For hundreds of 'Miles the •peaks •
11,000 feet But at this height every possible- lodging • lay at our feet. Feilres of miles of
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' JOHN STEAD
1•'ul ('hinn. i.allen Write. iinmilton 1.ttreet, Oncle-ieh,
out in (7hristsnas attire. -
Warne- Hew fast the horse is You forgot rote
111 Peaeher—•' r of the 'sWolk•—'• (i> st How fast the honeiLlkklij1J,i
is 'militia'!" .
• anything like civilization:" We
made the trip back on what •moun-
tain -gophers and small birds we
could pick up, and the•only r • son
why me- didn't eat locusts-cw,phat
they wouldn't kit still lung enough'
to be caught. -.••Finally 1 reached
-Edmonton n September 'sixth,
only to find hat -Cook and Peary
were monopol ing the interest of
the world, and axing no room
such small fry Mount
anal tie.
SIir ra >;'Qhristmasiiinnsr
RE never was such a goose.
T'-11ub - said - he didn't believe
there ever was such a goose
cooked. Its tenderness and flavor,
size and cheapness were themes of
universal admiration. Eked out
by :apple ,sauce and m r ed -pota-
toes, it- was a sufficient dinner for
the whole family. . ..But now
the plates bring -changed by Miss
Belinda, . Mrs: ('ratchet left' the
r. Ken alone • too •nervous . to bear
Witness to take the pudding up
and bring it in.
Suppose it should not, be done
enriukh!• Suppose it should break
in turning out! .Suppose—,* • .•
All s.,rts i.f horrors were supposed.
Medio! a great ileal of steam!
The pudding was out of the copper.
:\` smell like a washing -day! That
was the clout. :\ smell like 'an
eating house .and a pastry -cook's
next eloor to each" other, _with :t•.
laundress' next to that! That -was
the pudding! In half a minute
Mrs._ 'Crotchet entered flushed,
butsmiling -proudly—with the
pudding like a speckled -kle.i; cannon-
ball, so hard and firm; blazing in
half of half a quarters of ignited
brandy, and be,light with Christ-
- -utas holly stuck into the top..
Oh, a .wonderful pudding!
Bob Cratchet said. afel calmly, too,
that he regal -tied it as the greatest
success achieved by Mrs.. Crotchet
• since their marriage: • * * * *
At last the dinner was done,
the cloth was cleared, the hearth
was swept and the tire made up.
The compound in the jug being
tasted and considered' perfect,
apples and oranges were put upon
the table and a -shovel full of
chestnuts on the fire. Then all the
Cratchet.family drew around the
hearth
Then' flob proposed—"A
Merry Christmas -to us all. my
dears. God bless us?" which all the family re-echoed;
" God bless us every one!" said Tiny Tim,' the last
of alt.—Dickens' Christmas Carol.
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