Life

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Two hundred years ago, fur trader and explorer David Thompson and his crew were camped on the shore of the Columbia River, north of Mica Creek, passing the winter in a twelve foot square log hut. He is the first record we have of a European explorer in this region. Because of his abilities as a surveyor and his meticulous notes, his journals provide us a unique window into another age.

Part one of two regarding the bicentennial of David Thompson’s visit to our region David Thompson could be the world’s most accomplished geographer having mapped more ground than anyone else.

Peter Schlunegger’s great-grandfather Karl was one of the first Swiss Mountain Guides in Rogers Pass in 1899. Almost 70 years later, Peter continued his legacy, becoming one of the first heli-ski guides in Canada and a decade later founding Selkirk-Tangiers Heli-skiing – Revelstoke’s first heli-skiing operation. We look at his story and that of Swiss Mountain Guides in Canada.