"Bill Dobson leading the way out onto Garibaldi Lake, Jack Sutherland roped in the middle and Jim Irving taking the pictures as we explored. Easter week 1928."

Please Note: This audio interview includes the term "Indian” which is no longer acceptable as it does not reflect the sovereign status of Indigenous Nations and the cultural differences among them.

When you climb so many mountains, memories of the treks must be interwoven with each other — which peaks you climbed, who you were with, the sights you saw, or the things that went right, or wrong.

Here, Dick Chambers recounts some of his memories from the 1950s climbing in the Garibaldi and Tantalus ranges.

This group photo was taken at the 1913 Garibaldi Camp, held by the BC Mountaineering Club.

These folks were serious about their outdoor adventures, but without clothing designed for camping or climbing in the alpine and subalpine, they had to make do with their regular clothes.

Four unnamed mountaineers on a glacier. Named as “Helmut Glacier in Garibaldi section”, which could be Helm Glacier. Taken in 1930s.

Nellie Chapman in the Mount Garibaldi area as part of her expeditions with the BC Mountaineering Club. Taken in 1910.

With her rope and ice axe, her day probably involved crossing a glacier or climbing up snow slopes.

Mountaineers "hiking through snow" in 1910. Their ropes would have been made of hemp or similar, making them heavy when wet.

While the location is not specified, it seems that they are actually on Garibaldi Glacier, looking at the east faces of both Mount Garibaldi (right) and Atwell Peak (left), with the Garibaldi Neve in the centre.

For those hiking in the backcountry today, sharing the summits and lakes with other hikers is normal. For the mountaineers in the years of early exploration, they had those areas to themselves.

With all that solitude, what was this mountaineer thinking as he relaxed by this meadow lake, somewhere in the Garibaldi area?

Getting closer to the summit of Mount Garibaldi and to achieving the first successful recorded ascent of the mountain. The mountaineers are roped up below the main peak. The party are Arthur Tinniswood Dalton, William Tinniswood Dalton, James John Trorey, Atwell Duncan Francis Joseph King, T. Pattison, and G. B. Warren.