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Highlights
- Mount Robson is the most prominent mountain in North America's Rocky Mountain range; it is also the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies.
- Located entirely within Mount Robson Provincial Park of British Columbia and is the second highest peak entirely in British Columbia, behind Mount Waddington.
- Mount Robson boasts great vertical relief over the local terrain. From Berg Lake the mountain rises 2,300 m / 7,546 ft to the summit. The north face of Mount Robson is heavily glaciated and 800 m (2,600 ft) of ice plunge from the summit to Berg Glacier. The south side of the mountain rises 3,000 m / 9,843 ft from base-to-summit.
- The 1,500 m / 4,921 ft Emperor Face on the northwest side provides a formidable challenge to climbers attempting a route up this vertical wall of rock and ice.
- High failure rate on summit attempts with only about a 10% success rate. There is no easy way to the summit and bad weather commonly rebuffs most summit attempts.
Routes
3 climbs • 40.0 km • 918 m gain • 33 hr 46 min
Latest climbs
"Made an attempt on the Emperor Ridge of Mt. Robson from August 5th - August 9th. Reached about 11,900 ft before bailing out at end of day 4 due to being almost out of fuel. Perfect weather throughout the trip but there was an extreme lack of running water on the route and we ended up melting snow and ice for water and cooking from day 2 on. On the first day we hiked up to just shy of Burg Lake and then crossed a braided section of the Robson River. From there we scrambled up about 1000' of scree and bivied on a large ledge. Day two was a full day of fourth and lower fifth class scrambling. Never harder than than 5.3. We didn't rope up except for a long traverse below a cliff band at the end of the day to find a bivy spot with some snow to melt for water. Traversing to find water and then backtracking the next morning probably cost us 3 hours in total. Day three was lower 5th class climbing on very loose limestone and shale and a bit of chimney climbing up to about 5.6. We finished this day near the top of the ice couloire at the top of the Infinite Patience route. Day 4 started with 2 pitches to the top of the Infinite Patience ice couloire followed by a hard 5.7 chimney pitch. Thi..." — MichaelDyck • Aug 5, 2017
"Made it to extinguisher tower in 2 days of hiking through the beautiful area of Mount Robson park. Once at the extinguisher tower we got caught out with bad weather, conditions then further deteriorated. We made the decision to turn around and head back." — colinbriske • Sep 8, 2016
"Climbed through Kane Face from Dome. Approach to Dome by ridge, did not find the way through mousetrap. Went out of tent at 2:00, came back at 23:00. Deep snow all the way, on the ridge was very strong wind, about 100 m before ridge ends turned to left and followed below bergshrund till clear way to summit." — aleksandrnaumov • Jul 28, 2011
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