Lately I've taken a fascination with climbing Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies at almost 13,000 feet. This is a very serious, hardcore peak and has maybe a 10% summit success rate among climbing parties, something you don't often see on a sub-5,000 meter peak. This mountain is just incredibly awe-inspiring as it towers so high above eveything else in prominence, difficulty, and reward. It is certainly over my head for this summer; while half-day's drive from where I am living in Metaline Falls, Washington, climbing this peak even via the 'easier' trademark route is not something I have sufficient alpine ice/glacier travel experience to attempt. Ah well... in ther future. Here's a great link with photo's and descriptions courtesy of Summitpost...
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/150397/mount-robson.html
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