It is located in the Purcell Mountains, on the east face of North Star Hill.
In the summer of 1910 he surveyed the Purcell Mountains and in 1911 he explored the Banff area, making a number of first ascents already.
To the east are the Purcell Mountains and to the west the Selkirk Mountains.
At 1,110m in the Purcell Mountains, it's the second highest town in Canada.
Columbia Lake lies squeezed between two walls of rock; the Purcell Mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains to the east.
It was established in 1974, and encompasses six large drainages in the Purcell Mountains in the southeast of the province.
The Bugaboos are a mountain range in the Purcell Mountains of eastern British Columbia, Canada.
The Purcell Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern British Columbia, Canada.
In the Purcell Mountains, most of the peaks are near or above 10,000 feet in elevation.
The movies Alaska (1996) and Alive (1993) were filmed in Vancouver and the Purcell Mountains.