Mount Temple - North Face

If you have ever skied or hiked in Lake Louise, or just driven from Banff to Canmore, Mt Temple is impossible to ignore. "Only" the 11th highest peak of the Canadian Rockies, its north face is a complex 1,500m high wall of rock and ice, and one of the most prized alpine objectives in this part of the world, though rarely climbed due to significant serac danger on most of the routes.

This image also shows several of the Ten Peaks above Moraine Lake, as well as Pinnacle Mountain and Eiffel Peak, and even the stunning Cardiac Arête on the Grand Sentinel.

Note: this is an aerial photo that replaces an older summer image taken from Mt Fairview.

Route List

1: Aemmer Couloir, D 5.4 45°,  Aemmer, Fynn, 1918/Ward, 1979

2: Squashed Bones, D+ 5.8,  Briggs, Owens, 2001

3: Sphinx Access Couloir

4: Sphinx Face, TD+ 5.9 A2/M6, Orvig, Robinson, 1988/Relph, 2000s

5: Greenwood-Jones, TD 5.10a/M6, Greenwood, Jones, 1969

6: Hangman’s Ridge, TD+ 5.7 A2, Murdock, O’Dochartaigh, 1999

7: Ice Cliff Face var., TD+ 5.7, Burns, Eastburn, 1976

8: Lowes route, TD 5.7 A1, G. Lowe, J. Lowe, 1970

9: Dolphin Couloir, 54°, Ward, 1996

10: Elzinga-Miller, TD 5.7 WI2, Elzinga, Miller, 1974

11: Stringing up the Lights, TD+ WI4+ M3+ R, Petrauskas, Sullivan, 2021

12: The Bear Bitch Project, ED 5.10 A1, Raymond, West, 2001

13: Greenwood-Locke, TD+ 5.10c/M6, Greenwood, Locke, 1966

14: Slovenian Direct, ED 5.11 A2 WI3, Pockar, Pograjc, Skov, 1988

15: The Icarus Buttress, ED 5.11-, Slawinski, Walsh, 2008

16: Dolphin Access Couloir, MacFarlane, 2013

17: Unnamed Ski Line I, MacFarlane, 2013

18: Unnamed Ski Line II, MacFarlane, 2013

19: Cobra Couloir

20: Northwest Buttress, ED 5.11-, Richardson, Steadman, 2022

21: Southwest Face, PD, Allen, Frissell, Wilcox, 1894

22: Northeast Ridge of Heejee, PD+ 5.4, Fay, Kruszyna, 1961

23: Chouinard Route, AD+ 75°, Carman, Chouinard, Eberl, 1970

24: Central Ice Bulge Direct, AD+ 80°, Johnson, Skreslet, 1976

25: Centre Rock Rib, AD 5.6 50°, Boisselle, Trepanier, 1976

26: West Couloir of Heejee, AD 45°, Kallen, Roth, 1968

27: West Ridge of Heejee, PD 5.3 40°, Coleman, Feuz, Haggith, Kinney, Reid, 1907

28: East Ridge of Shappe, PD, Gest, Häsler, Schnellbacher, 1935

29: Northwest Ridge of Shappe, PD

30: Southeast Ridge of Sagowa, PD-, Kaufmann, Tuzo, 1906

31: Lindic-Leclerc, M7+ WI6+ R, Leclerc, Lindic, 2016

32: North Face of Sagowa, D+ 5.10c, Marshall, Smyth, 1985

33: West Ridge of Sagowa, F

34: East Ridge of Saknwa, D+, Gardner, Locke, 1965

35: Flying Buttress, D+ 5.7, Sole, Vockeroth, 1983

36: North Glacier of Saknwa, D+ 50°, Boles, Farrand, Greenwood, Locke, 1968

37: Supercouloir, TD 5.8/M5 65°, Jones, Lowe, 1973

38: Elzinga-Rogan, TD+ 5.9 A3, Elzinga, Rogan, 1975

39: Northwest Ridge of Saknwa, D+ 5.6, Boles, Greenwood, 1961

40: Northeast Ridge of Pinnacle Mountain, AD- 5.8, Hind, Neave, 1933

41: Cardiac Arête, 5.10d

Updates

March 9, 2023: Added the Lindic-Leclerc on Mt Tuzo.

March 7, 2024: Minor graphic update.