Arizona republican., 1901-10-20
UP AND DOWN MT. AssINIBo1NE.
The Report and Trophies Brought Back
 By the Swiss Guides.

Two of the Swiss guides in the em- ploy of the Canadian Pacific Railway company, Hasler and Bohrn. passed through the city yesterday on their way home. It will be remembered that these men together with six others ar rived in Canada from Switzerland and last May went at once to their stations along the main line of the C. P. F. within the mountains. Hasler is par ticularly intelligent man. and, as he speaks very fair English. he is able Co talk interestingly of his experiences ill the Rockies and Selkirk range. Bohrn and Hasler were the two guides who were with the Rev. James D. Outram. of Pitlochy, Scotland, when he made his already famous ascent-the first on record-of Mount Assiniboine, the Ca nadian Matterhorn-
 The departure was made from Field on August 30. and the peak was bagged on September 3. Hasler says the as- cent was fairly easy. but that the de- scent was very trying, and that the slightest mistake would have been fd- tai to the whole party. The steep north face down which they crept is d mass of friable rock. offering but an insecure hold for foot and hand; mors- over. it was covered by a film of ice, which in its turn was dusted with sprinkling of freshly fallen snow. How ever. the ascent was made, and made at the flag end of the season. too. for as Hasler says: Ut was the last day upon which the mountain could have been climbed this year.
 In addition to Mount Assiniboine the guides report that Mounts Vaux. Good sir, Chancellor, Wapta and Colley were also bagged this season. Of these Good sir was made in July and the cornices, or overhanging snow slopes, were unu- sually large and dangerous
 Do you think some of the peaks might be better climbed in winter?"
 "Yes," said Hasler, because then all the crevasses would be filled. and the snow would be hard frozen, making the danger from slides very much less than it is in summer" Hasler added: 'I came to this country first in April, 1899. and found on exploring the noun tains that many of the ascents would be comparatively easy at that season. In Switzerland we do a good deal of clim ping in winter"
 These two guides brought with them a young mountain goat, a mamie, which they caught on Mount Field on the 29th day of May last. The little creature had been born but few days. otherwise they would never have caught 1t alive as by the time the goat
 
 is a fortnight old it can follow it's dam anywhere. During the summer these guides met one grizzly, and several black and cinnamon bears, in addition to numerous sheep and goat. Goats they consider are most plentiful on tho Hanks of Mount Goodsir. They also saw Q few caribou. As hunting ground the Selkirk range is better, rule, than the Rockies, but an excep- ton must be made in favor of the Yoho valley. where all species of game native to the region are particularly numerous at the present time. Hasler mentioned incidentally that a new glacier. twenty one miles long. was dis covered in the hills, bordering this val ley during the summer.
 And where did you get the best fish, ing?"
 ''In Emerald lake ;there are lots of trout there?"
 The guides left for New York last night.-Montreal Herald.