First Ascent of the Northeast Ridge of Mt. Vancouver in 1975
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John Yates on a central moraine on the Kaskawulsh Glacier. The moraine is a part of the glacier that that marks the the join between the ice from two glaciers that merged upstream. Each of those feeder glaciers was subject to rockfall along its edge. The accumulated rocks are exposed as the surface melts and make the pronounced stripe down the middle of the main glacier.