Mount Smythe Alberta . Value: 10
Height: 3240 m (10630 ft) Prominence: 420 m
Line Parent: Diadem Peak (6 km away, at bearing 139 degrees)
Location: 52:21:18-117:28:51 52.35500-117.48083 11U 467252 5800632 NAD27: 11U 467251 5800414
NTS Map: 083.C.06 (21 km E of Fortress Lake). (71 km SE of Jasper).
Name Status: Official
Regions: Continental Columbia / Jasper Southeast / Columbia 3
First Ascent: 1951 Gil Roberts, Chuck Wilts, Illen Wilts (CAJ 35-31)
| A double rock summit located just northwest of Mount Nelson. The standard route is the west ridge, which involves several Class 5 pitches. Name Notes: Named after Francis Sydney Smythe who travelled, climbed, and wrote extensively about the mountains of the world. He rose to prominence in the mountaineering community after his impressive seasons in the Alps in 1927 and 1928. After that he climbed extensively in the Himalaya and was invited to join the 1933 British Mount Everest Expedition during which he and two others reached an elevation of 28,200 feet on the north side of the mountain without oxygen. In World War II he served in the Canadian Rockies as a mountaineer training officer for the famous Lovat Scouts.Smythe was the first to attempt to climb Brussels Peak but failed in each attempt. After the peak was climbed by 2 Americans using controversial aid he commented that “I still regard Mount Brussels as unclimbed, and my feelings are no different from those I should have were I to hear that a helicopter was to deposit its passenger on the summit of that mountain just so that he could boast that he had trodden an untrodden mountain top.” Smythe himself was an impeccable climber who believed using aid degraded the art of climbing, as were most of the European climbers of the time. | | Trip Reports Subject TripsTopo Maps
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11 Mount Smythe Eric CoulthardPlacename Photos
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