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Island Stories:

Danzig Mine
Zeballos Iron Mine
Conuma Peak 1910
Alexandra Peak
Argus Mountain
Bate/Alava Sanctuary
Beaufort Range
Big Interior Mtn
Big Interior Mtn 1913
Part 1
Part 2
Bolton Expedition 1896
Cliffe Glacier
Clinton Wood
Comox Glacier
Comox Glacier 1922
Comox Glacier 1925
Comstock Mtn
Conuma Peak
Copper King Mine
Crown Mtn
Elkhorn 1912
Elkhorn 1949
Elkhorn 1968
Eugene Croteau
Golden Bullets
Golden Hinde 1913/14
Golden Hinde 1937
Golden Hinde 1983
Harry Winstone Tragedy
Jack Mitchell
Jim Mitchell Tragedy
John Buttle
Judges Route
Koksilah's Silver Mine
Landslide Lake
Mackenzie Range
Malaspina Peak
Mariner Mtn
Marjories Load
Matchlee Mountain
Mount McQuillan
Mt. Albert Edward
Mt. Albert Edward 1927
Mt. Albert Edward 1938
Mt. Becher
Mt. Benson 1913
Mt. Benson
Mt. Doogie Dowler
Mt. Colonel Foster
Mt. Hayes/Thistle Claim
Mt. Maxwell
Mt. Sicker
Mt. Tzouhalem
Mt. Whymper
Muqin/Brooks Peninsula
Nine Peaks
Queneesh
Ralph Rosseau 1947
Rosseau Chalet
Ralph Rosseau Tragedy
Rambler Peak
Red Pillar
Rex Gibson Tragedy
Sid's Cabin
Steamboat Mtn
Strathcona Park 1980's
The Misthorns
The Unwild Side
Victoria Peak
Waterloo Mountain 1865
Wheaton Hut/Marble Meadows
William DeVoe
Woss Lake
You Creek Mine
Zeballos Peak

Other Stories:
Sierra de los Tuxtlas
Antarctica
Cerro del Tepozteco
Citlaltepetl
Huascaran
Mt. Roraima
Nevada Alpamayo
Nevada del Tolima
Nevado de Toluca
Pico Bolivar
Popocatepetl
Uluru/Ayers Rock
Volcan Purace
Volcan San Jose

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Author Biography and Significant Ascents:

Lindsay Elms was born in Sydney, Australia and moved to Christchurch, New Zealand at an early age. While attending Hagley High School he joined the school tramping club and within a couple of years (1974) joined the Canterbury Mountaineering Club. For the next six years he climbed in the lesser ranges of the Southern Alps and learned the required mountaineering skills, however, as with many young antipodeans he needed to further his experience by travelling and trekking overseas: Southeast Asia, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Europe and North Africa. In 1985 he went to Antarctica where he worked for the United States Antarctic Research Program at McMurdo Sound. He spent a year and a half on the continent, which included wintering over in 1986. Several trips were then made to South America and Central America before coming to the USA and Canada. For the next eight years he worked as a Mountaineering Instructor for the Canadian Outdoor Leadership Training (COLT) program at Strathcona Park Lodge on Vancouver Island but also continued climbing in Latin America. He currently works at St. Joseph's General Hospital in Comox.

Since arriving on Vancouver Island in 1989 Elms has climbed over two hundred of the island's peaks including a twenty-four hour round trip ascent of The Golden Hinde, a four hour ascent of Elkhorn and numerous other speed ascents, however, he has also climbed many of the lesser known and rarely visited north island peaks. He maintains his fitness through running and has completed numerous marathons, three ultra-marathons and a number of endurance races and is a member of the Comox Valley Road Runners. Elms lives in Comox on Vancouver Island and Beyond Nootka is his first book after publishing numerous journal articles on both mountaineering and Vancouver Island history.

Significant Ascents by Lindsay Elms:

Vancouver Island Qualifiers (IQ):
The Golden Hinde - 2,200m		1989, 91, 92, 93, 94, 94, 95, 95, 96, 98, 05, 06
Elkhorn Mountain - 2,166m		1989, 92, 94, 05, 06, 07, 12
Victoria Peak - 2,163m		1989, 04
Mount Colonel Foster - 2,135m		1999, 06
Warden Peak - 1,969m		1996, 06
Mount Harmston - 2,009m		1994, 05
Mount Septimus - 1,941m		1995, 05
Rugged Mountain - 1,861m		1998
Nine Peaks - 1,847m		1991, 92, 95, 06
Mexico:
Popocatepetl - 5,452m		1988
Citlaltepetl - 5,611m		1988 (Jamapa Glacier route)
Nevado de Toluca - 4900m		1999
Venezuela:
Pico Bolivar - 5,007m		1994
Pico Humboldt - 4,942m		1994
Pico Bonpland - 4,936m		1994
Mount Roraima - 2,810m		1994
Colombia:
Volcan Purace - 4,646m		1988
Nevada del Tolima - 5,215m		1988
Ecuador:
Cotopaxi - 5,897m		1986
Chimborazo - 6,310m		1988 (Original Whymper route)
Illiniza Norte - 5,126m		1988
Tungarahua - 5,016m		1988
Volcan Sangay - 5,230m		1988
Peru:
Huascaran - 6,768m		1988 (Garganta Col route)
Alpamayo - 5,947m		1988 (Southwest Face)
Nevada Uros - 5,483m		1988
Nevada Ishinca - 5,546m		1988
Maparaju - 5,600m		1988 (Solo)
Chile:
Volcan San Jose - 5,850m		1987 (Solo)
Cerro Diablo - 4,210m		1987 (Solo)
Argentina:
Aconcagua - 6,962m		1987 (Solo attempt-failed)
Canada:
Mount Waddington - 4,017m		1994 (Southeast Chimney route)
Mount Logan - 5,959m		1996 (King's Trench route)
USA:
Mount Rainier - 4,393m		2000 (Emmons Glacier route)
Mount Baker - 3,285m		2001 (Coleman/Deming route)

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