.304 Sport and Life. 



Alpine experience for such work, and be well supplied with all the 

 essentials, such as suitable rope, ice axes, and the most compact 

 camp equipage. The Indians are no good on the ice, and won't go 

 on to it, and I have only once been able to induce one of them to 

 cross a narrow icefall. The moraines, existing in the Selkirks in 

 great number, are often distinguished by the great size of the blocks 

 of rock. They occur frequently in such quantities that progress 

 over such a moraine is desperate, if not impossible, work. The 

 nomenclature of the Selkirk peaks has so far, with the exception of 

 those overlooking the C.P.R. track at Roger Pass, been attended to 

 by Tom, Dick, and Harry among the prospectors who first clambered 

 up their sides, or picked specimens on their slopes. Rarely were 

 the higher snow-covered eminences scaled, for, of course, mines 

 cannot be discovered under eternal snow or ice. When, after 

 one or two season's unsuccessful search, the first prospector 

 strayed to other regions, the next man to explore the mountain, 

 and who had perhaps never heard of his predecessor's existence, 

 will give another name to the peak. So that until good maps of 

 the Selkirks come into existence, one and the same hoary giant 

 will remain known by a variety of names. 



Of the higher peaks immediately adjacent to the C.P.R. that 

 have been christened in proper form Mr. Green named quite a 

 number the Matterhorn-like Mount Sir Donald is the highest. It 

 is rather a pity, from a national standpoint, that the several attempts 

 to conquer this formidable peak made by English climbers should 

 have failed, and that it was left to two enterprising young Swiss 

 climbers, Messrs. Sulzer and Emil Huber, to achieve the feat of 

 first scaling the top.* Similar regret fills the English climber's 

 heart at the fact that Mount St. Elias (i8,og2ft.), the highest 

 mountain in North America,t was conquered not by the British 



* They wrote an interesting account of their ascent. 



f This statement needs qualification, for Mount Orijaba, in Mexico, has now 

 been determined to be 18,314^., and there are pcssibly higher mountains behind 

 Mount St. Elias, the unexplored Mount Logan being thought by some to overtop 

 the former. 



