Posts tagged with ‘mountains’ (8)
Posted by Heather Yundt
in Mapping
on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
View Canada's most romantic place names in a larger mapLucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables novels put Prince Edward Island — and Canada — on the map as a place of evocative place names.
Lover’s Lane, Willowmere, Violet Vale and the Lake of Shining Waters were just some of the names the spirited Anne Shirley gave her favourite spots around the Cuthbert farm.
Those place names were a product of the author’s imagination, but Canada has plenty of romantic place names that could be mistaken for something out of Montgomery's books.
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For a climber, it’s one thing to turn around when you realize that you’re not going to make it to the summit. It’s one thing to call for help and admit to yourself that you won’t conquer the mountain this time around. It’s another thing entirely to realize that your lifeline — the pick-up helicopter — is just as paralyzed by the dangers of the mountain as you are.
When I called the helicopter, I learned that ...
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There are several things you have to take into consideration as expedition leader when you and your fellow climbers are huddled underneath a tarp 9,700 feet (3,000 metres) up a mountain, struggling to keep warm while a blizzard rages outside.
I talked to my team about all the dangers we faced. We had to consider the calories, for one. We had brought two lunches and two litres of water each. We’d already eaten our lunch and normally had dinner at 8 p.m. But were we going to be there for another ...
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People often remark that it’s ironic the only mountain left unsummitted in the Yukon’s Centennial Range is Mount Saskatchewan.
But that’s why Jeff Dmytrowich, Wren Rabut, Sam Unger and I — all of us from the flat lands of Saskatoon — were set on being the first to reach it.
We're not the first to try. Since 1967, three teams have attempted to summit Mount Saskatchewan, which is around 2,500 metres shy of Canada’s highest peak. So with a nod to our predecessors, we decided to start our ...
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Six days into our attempt to summit Mt. Saskatchewan, the only unconquered peak in the Yukon’s Centennial Range, my three fellow climbers and I were stuck at the base of a col, 9,700 feet (about 2,950 metres) high.
We’d decided to take a break here until nightfall, when the snow would harden and make it possible for us to go safely down the slope to our high camp. That was until the blizzard hit.
Huddled in a hole with an emergency tarp overhead, we had to make a decision. Outside the shelter’s ...
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