North America, Canada, Interior Ranges, Mount Amon-Ra, East Face, Purcells

Publication Year: 1977.

Mount Amon-Ra, East Face, Purcells. Lured by accounts of dizzying, steep, sound quartzite on the walls of the Egyptian Peaks, west of the Jumbo-Karnak massif and on the Glacier Creek-Jumbo Creek watershed, Craig Martinson and I hiked to timberline on September 15. Next morning we toyed with two “first pitches” and liked neither. Convinced that we’d like better the east fact of Amon-Ra, the highest in the group, we spent an hour hiking to its base. Here we were delighted with excellent rock, steep but well-broken (class 4 and up to F5). Ours was apparently the second ascent of the peak and the first by this route. Scars left by the timbering industry are a sad memorial to money-hungry man.

Fred Beckey