Climbing & Mountaineering

The parks and mountains around Golden – Yoho and Glacier National Parks or the Bugaboos – are renowned as one of the unsurpassable areas for North American alpinism. In 1888, British mountaineers Rev. William Spotswood Green and Rev. Henry Swanzy completed the first recreational technical climbs in the Selkirk Mountains.  In doing so, they established Glacier National Park as the birthplace of mountaineering in North America. 11 years later, the services of Swiss Guides were provided to guests at the Glacier House hotel in Rogers Pass.

By climbing northwest arête of Mount Sir Donald you will finish one of the fifty classic climbs in North America. For sport climbing head south of Golden to Spillimacheen Crags (or Spilli Rock) with its beautiful limestone walls. Check out the world-famous towers of the Bugaboos, just southwest of Golden. With their imposing granite spires and glaciers, they’ve proven irresistible to mountaineers and climbers from around the world for years