Photo by R. C. W. I,ett, by courtesy of Grand Trunk Pacific Railway 

 PREPARING SKINS OF SMALL GAME; ON A RAINY DAY 



Peak on the northeastern side. He there 

 made two attempts to climb the moun- 

 tain, but was driven back by storms and 

 returned after enduring many hardships. 



He was accompanied by Rev. George 

 Kinney, who returned the following year 

 (1909), and on August 13, with Donald 

 Phillips, ascended the peak. When they 

 reached the summit, fresh snow began 

 to fall and soon night was gathering. It 

 was only after incurring great risks for 

 seven hours on the storm-swept ice and 

 rocks that they finally descended to a 

 place of safety and told how they had 

 carried their flag to the highest peak in 

 the Canadian Rockies. 



Dr. Kinney later wrote that on the 

 summit it was too cold to stop, and on 

 the way down the danger was so great 

 that they could not stop. Twenty hours 

 of strenuous work brought them "to their 

 camp in the valley of. Berg Lake. 



Friends have asked how I happened 

 to take up geologic work in the Cana- 



dian Rockies. The reason is a very sim- 

 ple one. 



As a boy of 17 I planned to study 

 those older fossiliferous rocks of the 

 North American Continent which the 

 great English geologist Adam Segwick 

 had called the Cambrian system on ac- 

 count of his first finding them in the 

 Cambria district of Wales. This study 

 has led me to many wild and beautiful 

 regions, where Nature has glorified these 

 old sea-beds by thrusting them up into 

 mountain masses, with forests below, 

 and crowning them with perpetual snow 

 and ice. 



It was to learn the geology and the 

 record of the life of Cambrian times that 

 led and forced me summer after summer 

 to traverse and live in those grand and 

 beautiful Rockies. 



OUR HUNT FOR FOSSILS 



In the National Gfographic IMaga- 

 ziNE for June, 1911, I briefly told the 



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