Just putting a book proposal together for White Rose University press. It’s called ‘a history of mountains in a dozen objects’. What would be your object, one which is intimately connected to a mountain and also with your experience of it?
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A tobacco tin atop the highest peak on Bylot Island. It read "Pat Baird, 1939. Wonder who'll be next?" My friends and me, 1977. (The date was complete but I can't recall it. There is a Kodachrome slide of it somewhere).
Angillaak was a first ascent ( by default as it was not that hard, just a beauty!). Ultima Thule was it, a second ascent, as part of a long ridge walk from the interior icefield
It turns out that the official name of the higher peak is Mount Thule. Ultima was rejected as part of the name but that was local usage. Angillak was proposed by Laurie Dexter, a pastor at Pond Inlet, who was on the climb team with me. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Thule
I'll celebrate a half century anniversary of those climbs in July 2027. If I paced the climbs I think I could still do them. Access would be the challenge.
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