Natural feature
Castle Mountain
Castellated grey cliffs first climbed in eighteen eighty-four, now a classic alpine rock ascent.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Castle Mountain near Banff follows Arthur Coleman, a Toronto geology professor, on a rain-soaked June morning in eighteen eighty-four when he set out to finish what an earlier explorer had only half-climbed. It traces how that improvised first ascent grew into a modern alpine rock climbing tradition, and how a wartime general later lent his name to one of the peak's towers. Best heard looking up at the mountain's tiered grey cliffs from below.
This audio guide was created using AI.