North America, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Mount Temple, North Face in Winter

Publication Year: 1986.

Mount Temple, North Face in Winter. Barry Blanchard and I climbed a winter route on the north face of Mount Temple from March 16 to 18. We believe it is a new line. It had been tried twice earlier in the season by two other teams which were thwarted by a difficult rock band. We managed to get through the band and up to a ledge system which traversed off to the east ridge. There is a final 400-foot rock band, which is very compact and steep. This we avoided in what otherwise would have been a direttissima. The band in winter would certainly have been an aid climb. The face is the one to the left of the main north face of Temple; its top is a point just below the black towers of the east ridge of Mount Temple.

Carlos Buhler