Mount Goodsir

Mount Goodsir (or the Goodsir Towers) is the highest mountain in the Ottertail Range, a subrange of the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia. It is located in Yoho National Park, near its border with Kootenay National Park. The mountain has two major summits, the South Tower (the higher summit) and the North Tower, 3,525 metres (11,565 ft).

Mount Goodsir
Highest point
Elevation3,567 m (11,703 ft) [1]
Prominence1,887 m (6,191 ft) [1]
Listing
Coordinates51°12′06″N 116°23′48″W [2]
Geography
Mount Goodsir
British Columbia
LocationYoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
Parent rangeOttertail Range
Topo mapNTS 82N/01
Climbing
First ascent16 July 1903
Charles E. Fay and Herschel C. Parker, guided by Christian Häsler and Christian Kaufmann [2][3]
Easiest routeSouthwest ridge of South Tower: hike/climb (Grade III, YDS 5.4)[4]

The mountain was named by James Hector in 1859 after two brothers, John Goodsir, a professor of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh, and Harry Goodsir, a surgeon on the ship HMS Erebus.[2]

The standard route on the South Tower is the southwest ridge, a straightforward but long climb (Grade III), which consists primarily of non-technical terrain, but includes short sections of narrow ridge graded YDS 5.4. Access to any route on either Tower requires a long hike.[4]

See also

References
  1. "British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  2. "Mount Goodsir". Bivouac.com.
  3. "Goodsir Towers (North Tower)". PeakFinder.com. Retrieved 2019-08-20. Peakfinder lists the first ascent of the lower North Tower as 1909 by A. Eggers, J.P. Forde, P.D. McTavish, guided by Edward Feuz Sr.
  4. Sean Dougherty, Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, Rocky Mountain Books, 1991, ISBN 0-921102-14-3, p. 154.
View of Ottertail Range from west with Mount Vaux (left), Chancellor Peak (center), and Mount Goodsir (right)


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