Mount Forbes is the highest mountain entirely in Banff National Park. It is a difficult peak to climb but the journey to get there is amazing and you will go to an incredibly scenic area of the park. Music: • No Time , • Nomyn - Flow
11982 feet high. I still have it memorized. The only one that I climbed that was high was Mt Columbia. And it was just over 12000 feet. Mt Forbes was more technical and just as exhausting. Good video. Thanks for bringing back the memories. Keep up the climbing. Family life stopped it for me. My wife and I raised 7 kids. They all got to learn a Little Rock climbing and even today are looking and booking out outdoor trips.
tried it on 2003 and lost all the time navigating the broken glacier. In 2016, took an extra day, marked a passage on the climbers right hand. Still got into a storm and whiteout but summitted. You will need a snowy season.
What a great Mountain. I climbed it back in 1987 with The Alpine Club of Canada. It rained the first day of the August long weekend so we camped Early and were now behind a day. The next Dey got to that area above the main ice field. And again went to bed early. The final day got up at 5 and got to the summit around 7:30 8 AM. We hiked back to camp packed up tents and hiked all the way out. Got to the parking lot at 2 AM drive home at 6. Got ready to work and even worked a long day. Nuts. Absolutely Nuts. That hike out from the summit was 35 km. Wow wish that young again.
This was already one the best youtube vids i seen in a while, I was actually thinking of going out there, and then u got me with the Vinland saga good fucking shit
what a fascinating journey. it's hard to tell how much mountaineering experience you have or if you have taken some climbing courses, avalanche certification, etc . . . you successfully summited a challenging objective which is so impressive. at times, it appeared that you were winging it. amazing ! congrats.
Hi, thank you! We have experience with easy glacier travel, and Kayla knows how to trad climb, but we usually stick to objectives without rock climbing or ice climbing. Before this we had done a good amount of objectives which involve traveling on glaciers (Brazeau, Gannett, Bonnett, Hector, Athabasca, lots of Wapta stuff) but nothing this difficult. We have not taken climbing/mountaineering courses because that is very expensive and we have actually seen some of those courses teaching things which don't seem safe. Kayla took an avalanche course, but we don't do winter mountaineering, still this is important because avalanche information is not easily available on the internet. There was a big dump of snow before we went, but it had a week to settle, the snow conditions were pretty much perfect on the North face/West ridge. We always to some extent "wing it" when we are in the mountains. Obviously I do a lot of planning before we go, but when we are there we don't follow a gps track and we make many local judgments on route finding. For example it may have looked like we didn't know what we were doing in the serac field. Before we went I knew that there were two routes we should be able to take up the North glacier, when the first seemed to complicated we backtracked and went for the second.
"The highest mountain entirely in Banff". Ok. Nice peak. It's the second highest point in the entire Saskatchewan River system drainage...which goes all the way to Hudson's Bay. Nice video.
Hi, I watch a lot of animated tv shows. I don't know what your taste in tv is so I am not sure exactly what to recommend but I can tell you about some of the shows that I like. She-Ra and the Princesses of Power - Excellent character dynamics but the style is clearly for younger audiences. Vinland Saga - Interesting philosophy and themes, very bloody. Dragons Race To The Edge - Funny and often lighthearted, explores ideas of leadership, low animation quality. Spiderman the 1994 Animated Series - I just love Spiderman and I think that this version of the character really captures what it means to be Spiderman in terms of sacrificing your personal life to do what is right. Avatar the Last Airbender - This one is a classic, it is sometimes slow paced but it is a very complete story.
LMAO 15:40 "there's been a slight rain for the last um hour and a bit which kind of sucks... And we have to do a river crossing right at the start so that sucks... It sucks" thanks for pointing this out, I know I swear a lot but I didn't realize about the complaining, that's really funny. I was just trying to narrate a bit and I found this trip challenging so I guess that's the internal monologue of a man who is struggling.
