Big Peaks, Big Ice.

PEAKS

Mt Waddington: 4019 m

Mt Tiedemann: 3838 m

Combatant Mtn: 3762 m

Asperity Mtn: 3716 m

Monarch Mtn: 3555 m

Mt Queen Bess: 3298 m

Mt Good Hope: 3242 m

Mt Reliance: 3128 m

Mt Tatlow: 3063 m

Taseko Mtn: 3063 m

Mt Moore: 3037 m

Silverthrone Mtn: 2896 m

ICE

Combatant Col in the Waddington Range was the site of a relatively recent project to extract ice cores from a mid-latitude glacier. Ice depths at Combatant approach 250 metres, with the ice at the lowest layers approximately 200 years old. Weather records coupled with the evidence from the extracted cores place Combatant Col as one of the wettest places on earth. Combatant Col is 53 kilometres from desert-dry Kleena Kleene, annual precipitation 318 mm. Read about the 2010 ice core project here. 

• Monarch Icefield: 1600 sq km

• Ha-Iltzuk Icefield: 3500 sq km

  (includes Silverthrone and Klinaklini Glaciers)

• Homathko Icefield: 2000 sq km

• Lillooet Icefield: 3400 sq km

  (includes Compton Neve)

• Waddington Massif: no data

• Pantheon Range - Whitemantle Range: no data

Note:  Mountain elevations and icefield areas are approximate. 

Resources:

Don Munday. The Unknown Mountain. 1948.

Kathryn Bridge. A Passion for Mountains:  The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday. 2010.

Kathryn Bridge. Phyllis Munday. 2002

John Baldwin. Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis. 1994; 2009 (second edition)

D.H. Clark. Preliminary results from a new high-resolution ice core from Combatant Col, Mount Waddington, British Columbia, Canada. Quarternary International 310: 229. 2013.