...quite unknown until discovered by Dr. Collie in 1898. In describing his first view of it he wrote : "A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward...surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed,' and unclimbed peaks."1 Since that time these peaks have been the goal of several successful mountaineering expeditions,...

...before us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward...unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise, and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska;...

...eye, and surrounded by entirely unknown, unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise, and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska; while far away to the west, bending over in those unknown valleys glowing with the evening...

...description has become classic and cannot be more satisfactorily presented than in their own words: "A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward...unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise; and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska...

...1898, by J. Norman Collie,1 who described the view from the summit of Mount Athabaska, as follows: "A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward...unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise, and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska;...

...the Columbia Icefield region. In "Climbs and Explorations in the Canadian Rockies," he writes: — "A new world was spread at our feet; to the west-ward...unnamed, and unclimbed peaks. From its vast expanse of snows the Saskatchewan Glacier takes its rise, and it also supplies the head-waters of the Athabaska...

...August 1898, Woolley and Collie ascended Athabasca Peak, and from there first viewed the icefields: "A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward...by entirely unknown, unnamed, and unclimbed peaks" (107). 39 Clark, Victorian Mountaineers, 21. 40 In an interview, Wharton pointed out his desire to...

...beneath us in the evening light was one that does not often fall to the lot of modern mountaineers. A new world was spread at our feet; to the westward stretched a vast icefield... " On the occasion of his first visit from Banff to Jasper, mountaineer and surveyor AO Wheeler, a strong...