Canada, Sky Walking at Mt. Nimbus
This via ferrata in Canada’s Purcell mountains is the nation’s largest, and the most remote in the mountainous country—or perhaps anywhere. The Mt. Nimbus route, which ascends the 8,000-foot Trundle Mountain is so deep in the northern Rocky Mountains that a helicopter is the only sane way to reach it.
The two-and-a-half-hour climb takes climbers into a high-altitude dreamscape of rock, snow and smoky fog. The route traverses narrow ridges and gendarmes. The crescendo comes as climbers must negotiate a suspension bridge that spans two mighty exposed spires.
Set deep in the Purcell Mountain range and reaching jagged and sharp into the sky, 2,651m-high Mount Nimbus is the kind of wild and extraordinary place that few casual mountaineers can usually reach. Its 2.5km-long via ferrata, built in 2007 by Canadian Mountain Holiday (CMH) guides, is part of a heli-hiking excursion only available to guests of the remote Bobbie Burns Lodge, located near the small city of Golden.
After a chopper drops off guests in an idyllic wildflower-covered valley, mountaineers strap on helmets and harnesses, clip their via ferrata lanyards to the metal cable bolted to the base of Mount Nimbus, and begin to climb. Guests traverse sharp ridges, cross a suspension bridge of dizzying heights and scramble over the final summit, all the while taking in the snow-capped mountain scenery and watching the occasional eagle fly overhead.
This via ferrata in Canada’s Purcell mountains is the nation’s largest, and the most remote in the mountainous country—or perhaps anywhere. The Mt. Nimbus route, which ascends the 8,000-foot Trundle Mountain is so deep in the northern Rocky Mountains that a helicopter is the only sane way to reach it.
The two-and-a-half-hour climb takes climbers into a high-altitude dreamscape of rock, snow and smoky fog. The route traverses narrow ridges and gendarmes. The crescendo comes as climbers must negotiate a suspension bridge that spans two mighty exposed spires.
Set deep in the Purcell Mountain range and reaching jagged and sharp into the sky, 2,651m-high Mount Nimbus is the kind of wild and extraordinary place that few casual mountaineers can usually reach. Its 2.5km-long via ferrata, built in 2007 by Canadian Mountain Holiday (CMH) guides, is part of a heli-hiking excursion only available to guests of the remote Bobbie Burns Lodge, located near the small city of Golden.
After a chopper drops off guests in an idyllic wildflower-covered valley, mountaineers strap on helmets and harnesses, clip their via ferrata lanyards to the metal cable bolted to the base of Mount Nimbus, and begin to climb. Guests traverse sharp ridges, cross a suspension bridge of dizzying heights and scramble over the final summit, all the while taking in the snow-capped mountain scenery and watching the occasional eagle fly overhead.
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