BYRON HARMON

1876-1942

Mr. Harmon was born in Tacoma, Wash., in 1876 and died at the Canmore hospital on July 9th, 1942. Although never a member of this Club he was so well known to mountaineers through the medium of his photography that he should be mentioned in these pages. He came to Banff in 1903 and for many years was an enthusiastic climber, becoming a life member of the Alpine Club of Canada. He accompanied Longstaff and Wheeler to the Bugaboos in 1910, and was a member of the party which explored Mt. Robson in the following year, he himself making the first ascent of Mt. Resplendent. His pictures of the Lake of the Hanging Glaciers were particularly well known, and he went with Lewis Freeman to the Columbia Icefield, the latter’s book, Roof of the Rockies, being dedicated to Byron Harmon, “who gave the Rocky Mountains to the World.”

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