Mount Goodsir

Mount Goodsir
Highest point
Elevation3,567 m (11,703 ft)[1]
Prominence1,887 m (6,191 ft)[1]
Parent peakMount Assiniboine (3616 m)[2]
Listing
Coordinates51°12′06″N 116°23′48″W / 51.20167°N 116.39667°W / 51.20167; -116.39667[2]
Geography
Mount Goodsir is located in British Columbia
Mount Goodsir
Mount Goodsir
Location in southeastern British Columbia
CountryCanada
ProvinceBritish Columbia
DistrictKootenay Land District
ParkYoho National Park
Parent rangeOttertail Range
Topo mapNTS 82N1 Mount Goodsir
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]

Mount Goodsir (or the Goodsir Towers) is the highest mountain in the Ottertail Range, a subrange of the Park Ranges 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).[5]

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][6]

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]

  1. ^ a b "British Columbia and Alberta: The Ultra-Prominence Page". Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2012-12-25.
  2. ^ a b c d "Mount Goodsir". Bivouac.com. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
  3. ^ "Goodsir Towers (North Tower)". cdnrockiesdatabases.ca. 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. ^ a b Dougherty, Sean (1991). Selected Alpine Climbs in the Canadian Rockies. Rocky Mountain Books. p. 154. ISBN 0-921102-14-3.
  5. ^ "Topographic map of Goodsir North Tower". opentopomap.org. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
  6. ^ "Mount Goodsir". BC Geographical Names. Retrieved 2021-05-12.

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