Mt. Waddington | W side, across Franklin Glacier
| Looking down Tiedemann glacier
| E side
| Epaulette Glacier
| Summit area, from S-SE
| NW Summit, Main Summit, The Tooth, from S-SW
| Main Summit, The Tooth, from S-SW
| Waddington and Tiedemann Group, labeled panorama
| Combatant, Tiedemann, Asperity, Serras | Combatant, Tiedemann, Asperity, Serras
| Combatant
| Combatant
| Serras, E Side
| Mt. Bell | S Face
| N Side
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| Mt. Waddington • Height: 4019 m (13,186 ft) • Prominence: 3289 m (10,788 ft) above Rose Lake Pass • Coordinates: 51.37389, -125.26361 • Ascents: The first ascent of the main peak (via the SW Face) was in 1936 by Weissner and House; in 1942 by the Beckey brothers; and in 1950 by (a) Cook, DeSaussure, Long and Huston, and (b) Steck and Bettler. All these were Americans. The first Canadian team was Aldolf Bitterlich, Ulf Bitterlich, Arno Meier, John Owen, and Christian Schiel. • Name Notes: Adopted in 1928, after Alfred Waddington, who promoted the dream of a transcontinental railway from 1858 to 1872, via the Homathko river and Bute Inlet. According to BC Placename cards, R. P. Bishop, the surveyor, originally proposed the name "Cradock" in 1923. Don and Phylis Munday used the name "Mystery Mountain", but neither Cradock, nor "Mystery Mountain" were accepted by the government. • Details: This peak is #3 on the Height List for British Columbia, after Fairweather Mountain and Mount Quincy Adams. It is #2 in Prominence List for British Columbia. It is located in southwestern British Columbia, at the head of Bute and Knight Inlets. The mountain was first sighted by R.P.Bishop in 1922 while doing surveys from Mount Good Hope. It was then sighted again by Don and Phyllis Munday in 1925 from Mount Arrowsmith, on Vancouver Island. Between 1926 and 1934, they led several expeditions to the mountain. They successfully reached its lower northwest summit in 1928, but decided that the main summit was too risky. In 1948, Don Munday published the book The Unknown Mountain, documenting the couple's Mount Waddington challenges and adventures. |
Combatant Mountain • Height: 3762 m (12,343 ft) • Prominence: 252 m (827 ft) • Coordinates: 51.39167, -125.24333 • First Ascent: 1933; S Face, H. Hall, H. Fuhrer, A. Roovers, D. Munday, P. Munday • Name Notes: Name adopted in 1950. • Details: This peak is #10 on the Height List for British Columbia. It is located 2 km NE of Mount Waddington, and 800 m west of Tiedemann. It is a superb summit made of pale beige granite with four outstanding parallel rock buttresses on its S and SW flanks. The highest point is on the southeastern end of the mountain. The SW buttress is climbed by "Skywalk", a 500m route of about a dozen pitches at consistent 5.8 and 5.9 on perfect sunny granite, the primo rock routes of the Waddington Range. |
Mt. Tiedemann • Height: 3838 m (12,592 ft) • Prominence: 848 m (2781 ft) • Coordinates: 51.39389, -125.23666 • First Ascent: 1939; Chaos Glacer to N Arete; S. Hendricks, H. Fuhrer, R. Gibson, H. Hall • Name Notes: BC Placename cards say: Adopted 3 April 1928 on Ottawa file OBF 1018, as suggested by Don Munday because or its' proximity to Tiedemann Creek and Glacier (file M.1.27). The creek itself was named after Herman O. Tiedemann, CE, explorer of the Homathko River, 1862 - 1872. According to January 1972 advice from Provincial Archives, Tiedemann wrote to Mr. Waddington in July 1862, stating that he named this stream after himself, after nearly drowning in it. • Details: This peak is #8 on the Height List for British Columbia. Mount Tiedemann is the second highest peak in the Coast Mountains, 3 km to the northeast of Mount Waddington, and separated from it by a deep pass joining the Tiedemann and Schimitar glaciers. Tiedemann is the highest point in a cluster of peaks on the far side of the big drop. The south face is generally rocky; the north side is cloaked in snow and ice. |
Mt. Bell • Height: 3269 m (10,725 ft) • Prominence: 804 m (3039 ft) • Coordinates: 51.41444, -125.43056 • First Ascent: July 1936; Bestor Robinson, Hervey Voge, Raffi Bedayan, Ken Austin • Name Notes: Named by the Mundays in 1926 for F.C.Bell of the ACC, not because of any resemblance to a bell-shape. • Details: A great pyramidal summit with a huge, impressively seraced north face located above Cannonade Glacier. |
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