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The 2010 Mount Meager landslide was a large catastrophic debris avalanche that occurred in southwestern British Columbia, Canada, on August 6 at 3:27 a.m. PDT (UTC-7).More than 45,000,000 m 3 (1.6 × 10 9 cu ft) of debris slid down Mount Meager, temporarily blocking Meager Creek and destroying local bridges, roads and equipment.
North Shore Rescue is a non-profit organization dedicated to wilderness search and rescue around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It consists of a team of approximately 40 volunteers who perform an average of 79 [ 1 ] search and rescue operations each year, mostly in the rugged, steep, and thickly forested North Shore Mountains .
The Victoria Search and Rescue Region (SRR) comprises the land masses of British Columbia and Yukon, as well as a portion of the north-eastern Pacific Ocean. It is approximately 490,000 square miles (1,300,000 km 2) of mainly mountainous terrain, with another 275,000 square miles (710,000 km 2) of ocean and 20,000 miles (32,000 km) of coastline ...
The Boundary Range, formerly known as the Boundary Mountains, is a subrange of the similarly named but much larger Boundary Ranges which run most of the length of the border between British Columbia, Canada, and Alaska, United States. The range lies west of the lower Stikine River between the Mud (S) and Flood Glaciers (N).
Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments. This tends to include mountains with technical rope access issues, snow, avalanches, ice, crevasses, glaciers, alpine environments and high ...
Interactive map of Devils Thumb: Location: Southeastern Alaska, U.S. and northwestern British Columbia, Canada: Parent range: Stikine Icecap, Boundary Ranges: Topo map(s) USGS Sumdum A-2 [1] NTS 104F1 Dominion Mountain [2] Climbing; First ascent: 1946 by Fred Beckey, Clifford Schmidtke, Bob Craig: Easiest route: rock/snow/ice climb
Canada officially defines the Rocky Mountains system as the mountain chains east of the Rocky Mountain Trench extending from the Liard River valley in northern British Columbia to the Albuquerque Basin in New Mexico, not including the Mackenzie, Richardson and British Mountains/Brooks Range in Yukon and Alaska (which are all included as the ...
Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada.Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which straddle the United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, Mount Waddington is the highest peak that lies entirely within British Columbia. [4]