All peaks over 11,000 feet in the Canadian Rockies, pioneered and first completed by Don Forest in 1979. This challenge includes the latest revisions from bivouac.com, which is the same as Bill Corbett's list without Mount Huber. To date, very few people have completed this challenge due to the difficulty of many of the peaks.
Highest peak
Mount Robson
12,972 ft / 3,953 m
Most prominent peak
Mount Robson
9,281 ft / 2,828 m prom
Most summited peak
Mount Temple
158 summits
Most difficult peak
Mount Athabasca
Class 2
Difficulty breakdown
Class 1/2 1 peak
Class 3/4 4 peaks
Class 5+ 4 peaks
Highlights
Latest summits
"West Ridge ascent (5.8), and SW face descent. Some snow on the route made a couple of pitches a little bonus spicy. I guess that is 11ers in September. Used a lower bivy at the last lake, because we were unsure of water higher up. We did find a pond on the west ridge col though, with questionable drinking quality. 17 hours west ridge col to west ridge col as a team of 3 and snowy conditions, probably 1.5 hours lost to route finding mistake. " — ken_hercules • Sep 10, 2023
"Three day ascent of Mount Cline’s SW ridge. We got to the bivy at midnight the first night. Summit day went smoothly, but it was tiring so we stayed an extra night.
The first notch was mostly easy, but the second notch was more serious; an awkward rappel on ascent and a challenging climb with exposure on return." — yuri • Sep 2, 2023
"Route: North Ridge from Hind Hut.
Conditions: Ideal weather; dry route throughout.
Timing: 6 hours to summit, 1/2 hour on summit, 5 hours return to hut.
Approach: Helicopter to Assiniboine Lodge, then Gmoser Highway to Hind Hut. Gmoser Ledges are exposed and required careful scrambling. 3 hours from lodge to hut. Fellow climbers from BC side noted that the Sturdee Glacier was dry with large crevasses. They recommended taking the climber's left of the glacier for the best route.
Scrambling: Fun and sustained. Relying on cairns, footprints, crampon marks, and trails made route-finding straightforward. The Red Band section had great rock quality.
Roping Up: Chelsea and I roped up when ridge steepened below the Gray Band, beginning at the lower rappel station. Mike and Cam free soloed to summit. We took 3 pitches to reach the Gray Band crux.
Gray Band Crux: Managed using cams to protect a few exposed moves around an awkward feature. Belayed Chelsea to a bolted rappel station, then completed a final pitch to the upper ridge.
Summit: No snow made the upper ridge easy; enjoyed breathtaking views.
Descent: Utilized 6 rappels with some downclimbing between a few of them..." — ivo • Aug 19, 2023
"Shit conditions. Not enough snow, too much ice. Climbed the standard gully, cut left near the top to cut through a cornice instead of dealing with more ice up and right with no cornice." — mikesamson • Jun 3, 2023
"Full day climb of the East Ridge with Scott Davies. We started from the upper parking lot at 6:15am (better would be to start from lower parking area along road at 5am). Lower ridge is easily scrambled on very blocky rock. Upper ridge is fairly easy climbing (5.3-5-4) but quite exposed, so we used a rope and a small rack (3 small cams, a set of nuts, 1/2 dozen extendable draws and a couple full length slings).
Reached summit at about 6:00pm. Coming from the east, there are 3 summits and the 2nd seems to be the highest but the summit register is at the third. The climb down the south west side is very tedious on loose scree and talus. Patience is useful here to avoid an unpleasant slip. The slopes start to cliff out near the bottom but there is a path through the gullies on skiers right. We were down to the valley trail around 9:00pm and hiked out by headlamp arriving back at the car about 1:00am." — MichaelDyck • Aug 25, 2022