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- W2317114583 abstract "THE Rocky Mountains, viewed from the Beaverlodge district of the Peace River Plains, present a jagged range diminishing in height toward the north and increasing in ruggedness and elevation toward the south until they culminate in the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, Mount Robson. One peak stands out pre-eminent: a broad base tapering gradually to the needlelike point resembling an Indian teepee, and so named by the aborigines. But with the coming of the white man the peak was renamed Mount Ida (elevation 10,135 feet), although the Indian guides of the region still cling to its original name. Just south of Mount Teepee, and towering 800 feet above it, is a tremendous mountain mass, surrounded by extensive ice-fields. Enveloping mists permit only an occasional view of its wedge-shaped summit. The Cree Indians call it Kitchie, meaning The Mighty, but, as with Mount Teepee, the white man ignored the significant Indian name, and Mr. S. Prescott Fay placed it on the map as Mount Alexander; subsequently geographers knighted the mountain, and it now appears as Mount Sir Alexander. Its height we subsequently measured as 10,980 feet. No maps of the country on the slopes of the Continental Divide north of Mount Kitchie were known to exist, and as far as could be ascertained nothing had been attempted in that region since Murray and Copley's reconnaissance map of 1892. These surveyors, who had carefully worked out the Peace River basin, designated the area to the south as High snow and glacier peaks, unexplored. Warburton Pike in 1890 had skirted the north and west edges of this territory, and H. Somers-Somerset, in 1893, in an attempt to cross the northern section of this area from Dunvegan, on the Peace River in Alberta, through Pine Pass was reduced to killing his pack animals for food, and reached Fort McLeod almost starving. Local inquiry revealed that this country was shunned by native trappers, and that all professional guides gave it a bad name, declaring it contained no game. When in 1926 we unloaded our duffle [stores and kit] at the Hudson Bay post on the Peace River, called Hudson Hope, we had in mind to map the mountain ranges and the rivers of this area, as well as to find the northern limits of the Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis canadensis) and the southern range of the Stone sheep (Ovis stonei). We were interested in determining whether the ranges of stonei and canadensis overlapped and whether these sheep interbred." @default.
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- W2317114583 title "A New Low Pass of the Rockies" @default.
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