North America, Canada, Canadian Rockies, "Thorington's Tower"

Publication Year: 1968.

“Thorington’s Tower.” The peak given this unofficial name in the Climbers Guide to the Canadian Rockies was climbed by Don Lashier and me on September 4. Approach was from the Athabaska Valley and Gong Lake. From a glacier just north of the peak the party ascended a 1000-foot snow couloir to attain a notch on the east ridge of the peak. From this notch the base of a very imposing cliff band is easily reached. The band was surmounted by starting 30 feet left of the east ridge and working upward and left. After ascending 200 feet of enjoyable and sometimes difficult limestone, the climbers followed easier rocks to the summit. NCCS III, F7.

Charles Raymond