Mount Goodsir

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Mount Goodsir
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Highest point
Elevation 3,567 m (11,703 ft) [1]
Prominence 1,887 m (6,191 ft) [1]
Parent peak Mount Assiniboine (3616 m) [2]
Listing
Coordinates 51°12′06″N116°23′48″W / 51.20167°N 116.39667°W / 51.20167; -116.39667 [2]
Geography
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Mount Goodsir
Location in southeastern British Columbia
Country Canada
Province British Columbia
District Kootenay Land District
Park Yoho National Park
Parent range Ottertail Range
Topo map NTS 82N1 Mount Goodsir
Climbing
First ascent 16 July 1903
Charles E. Fay and Herschel C. Parker, guided by Christian Häsler and Christian Kaufmann [2] [3]
Easiest route Southwest ridge of South Tower: hike/climb (Grade III, YDS 5.4) [4]

Mount Goodsir (or the Goodsir Towers) is the highest mountain in the Ottertail Range, a subrange of the Park Ranges in British Columbia. It is located in Yoho National Park, near its border with Kootenay National Park. The mountain has two major summits, the South Tower (the higher summit) and the North Tower, 3,525 metres (11,565 ft). [5]

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The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after two brothers, John Goodsir, a professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, and Harry Goodsir, a surgeon on the ship HMS Erebus. [2] [6]

The standard route on the South Tower is the southwest ridge, a straightforward but long climb (Grade III), which consists primarily of non-technical terrain, but includes short sections of narrow ridge graded YDS 5.4. Access to any route on either Tower requires a long hike. [4]

View of Ottertail Range from west with Mount Vaux (left), Chancellor Peak (center), and Mount Goodsir (right) Vaux, Chancellor, Goodsirs.jpg
View of Ottertail Range from west with Mount Vaux (left), Chancellor Peak (center), and Mount Goodsir (right)

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Goodsir". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  3. "Goodsir Towers (North Tower)". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. Retrieved 2019-08-20. This site lists the first ascent of the lower North Tower as 1909 by A. Eggers, J.P. Forde, P.D. McTavish, guided by Edward Feuz Sr.
  4. 1 2 Dougherty, Sean (1991). Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies. Rocky Mountain Books. p. 154. ISBN   0-921102-14-3.
  5. "Topographic map of Goodsir North Tower". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  6. "Mount Goodsir". BC Geographical Names . Retrieved 2021-05-12.