Philip Stanley Abbot Author:Appalachian Mountain Club Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHILIP STANLEY ABBOT. Mount Lefroy, Alberta, August 3, 1896. What bright, triumphant hopes, what noble joy, For us who loved thy glorious promise, nor Doubte... more »d what lofty ends thy life was for, Were buried deep with thee, beloved boy ! High service of the High was thy employ ? Thou hadst enlisted in God's Holy War: Thy banner's strange device, "Excelsior!" Flamed on the crags of terrible Lefroy. Climb still, O brave j'oung mountain-lover, climb! The clouds have hid thy track, but grander sights Than meet our eyes on these dull flats of Time Lure thy steps starward to eternal lights: Still shines thy banner with its call sublime, Still summons thy pure soul to holier heights. F. E. A.In the Couloir on Mount Lefroy.1 By Charles S. Thompson. Bead Jane 9,1896. Among the memories of our last summer's outing there lies the image of a high, bell-shaped peak thrust mightily forward between the Green and Mitre glaciers of Lake Louise, ? the famous, much-disputed Mt. Lefroy. Gazing upon it with avaricious eyes from the summit of Goat Mountain, our greedy hearts were filled with a desire for its topmost bit of crystal, rock or ice; that desire is still with us. This is what we saw from Goat Mountain. At our feet, half a mile below, the valley of Lake Louise rose slowly southward, through lake and rock-fall, through terminal moraine and almost level glacier, to the massive wall of Mt. Green, where the Continental Divide, hitherto the western limit of the valley, swept suddenly eastward, and for an instant looped hesitatingly toward the north. In this angle of hesitation, ere the great divide definitely turned to the southeast,?forming in fact the eastern head-wall of the valley,?stood Mt. Lefroy. Beyond the shoulder of Hazel Peak its eastern face loo...« less