Location
knights inlet - British Columbia, Canada
Knight Inlet cuts 80 miles through the remote Coast mountain range to Mt. Waddington, the highest peak located totally within British Columbia. The 4,016-metre peak of Mt. Waddington was only mapped as recently as 1925 and is the highest peak in the Coast Range.
It's the 2nd highest major prominence peak in British Columbia - technically demanding with a dramatic summit pinnacle. The mountain receives a substantial amount of snow from Pacific storms, especially in the winter months, and is surrounded by impressive glaciers.
Silverthrone Mountain is the highest point in the Ha-Iltzuk Ice field, the largest ice field in the Coast Mountains south of the Alaskan Panhandle and also one of the most remote, located over 200 miles (320 km) northwest of Vancouver and about 30 miles (50 km) west of Mount Waddington. Silverthrone Mountain itself is an eroded volcanic dome on the northeast edge of a large caldera complex about 12 miles (20 km) in diameter.
Most of the caldera's eruptions occurred during the Ice Age and the products have since been heavily eroded, but young lava flows have erupted in post-glacial times and flowed down the Machmell River valley to the west. Volcanological references list the elevation of Silverthrone Mountain as 10360 ft (3160 m), but the current 1:50,000 scale topographical map 92M/9 shows it reaching only to the 9400 ft contour line (no spot elevation is given).
Mt. Waddington's History...
The mountain was first sighted by Don and Phyllis Munday while on a climbing trip on Vancouver Island in the early 1930s. For the next decade they mounted several expeditions to the area of the mountain, approaching from the head of Knight Inlet via the Franklin Glacier. Between 1926 and 1934, they led several expeditions to the mountain. They successfully reached its lower northwest summit in 1928, but decided that the main summit was too risky.
The mountain was originally referred to by the Mundays as "Mystery Mountain" but that name was not adopted by the Geographic Board of Canada. It was eventually named "Mount Waddington" by the Geographic Board of Canada after Alfred Waddington, who promoted the dream of a transcontinental railway from 1858 to 1872, via the Homathko river and Bute Inlet.
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