Ape Lake August-September 2025

        Ape Lake August-September 2025


Located in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia is the Monarch Icefield. Our access to the glaciers was by flight onto the stark, yet breath-taking, Ape Lake. Further to these photos are maps and detail of our paths through this landscape.

flight in from Nimpo Lake 2025-08-30, 8:47 a.m.
left behind 2025-08-30, 9:07 a.m.
day 1: establish camp and Fyles Glacier 2025-08-30, 1:14 p.m.
2025-08-30, 1:40 p.m.
dark vein 2025-08-30, 1:44 p.m.
2025-08-30, 1:45 p.m.
2025-08-30, 1:49 p.m.
Fyles Glacier 2025-08-30, 2:00 p.m.
2025-08-30, 2:14 p.m.
Fyles Glacier 2025-08-30, 2:35 p.m.
2025-08-30, 2:37 p.m.
2025-08-30, 2:39 p.m.
2025-08-30, 2:46 p.m.
2025-08-30, 2:55 p.m.
upon Fyles Glacier 2025-08-30, 2:59 p.m.
2025-08-30, 3:04 p.m.
upon Fyles Glacier 2025-08-30, 3:36 p.m.
2025-08-30, 3:48 p.m.
2025-08-30, 4:37 p.m.
2025-08-30, 4:36 p.m.
2025-08-30, 4:41 p.m.
2025-08-30, 4:58 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:11 p.m.
rock flour coated rocks 2025-08-30, 7:16 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:20 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:22 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:30 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:32 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:37 p.m.
2025-08-30, 7:40 p.m.
end of day one 2025-08-30, 8:00 p.m.
day two: Ape Glacier 2025-08-31, 8:43 a.m.
wildfire smoke wafting in 2025-08-31, 8:44 a.m.
Ape Lake (shot from esker, ridge left) 2025-08-31, 9:52 a.m.
Ape Glacier, Mt Jacobsen (back, left with sharp peak) and West Jacobsen Peak (back, right, rounded peak) 2025-08-31, 9:53 a.m.
2025-08-31, 10:39 a.m.
2025-08-31, 10:41 a.m.
2025-08-31, 11:02 a.m.
2025-08-31, 11:00 a.m.
2025-08-31, 11:09 a.m.
Ape Glacier 2025-08-31, 12:16 p.m.
2025-08-31, 12:46 p.m.
2025-08-31, 1:06 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:07 p.m.
Ape Glacier 2025-08-31, 2:21 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:26 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:27 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:29 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:31 p.m.
2025-08-31, 2:32 p.m.
Ape Glacier 2025-08-31, 2:59 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:17 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:23 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:35 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:37 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:42 p.m.
2025-08-31, 3:49 p.m.
2025-08-31, 4:39 p.m.
2025-08-31, 7:13 p.m.
2025-08-31, 7:39 p.m.
Mt Ratcliff (centre) 2025-08-31, 7:46 p.m.
2025-08-31, 7:55 p.m.
2025-08-31, 8:01 p.m.
2025-08-31, 8:02 p.m.
2025-08-31, 8:13 p.m.
2025-08-31, 8:14 p.m.
day three: Borealis Glacier (Fyles Glacier above) 2025-09-01, 9:50 a.m.
2025-09-01, 10:10 a.m.
2025-09-01, 10:44 a.m.
2025-09-01, 10:49 a.m.
2025-09-01, 11:55 a.m.
2025-09-01, 11:59 a.m.
Fyles Glacier, left 2025-09-01, 12:08 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:16 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:16 p.m.
Borealis Glacier 2025-09-01, 12:30 p.m.
Borealis Glacier 2025-09-01, 12:33 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:35 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:40 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:43 p.m.
2025-09-01, 12:56 p.m.
2025-09-01, 7:16 p.m.
2025-09-01, 7:14 p.m.
2025-09-01, 7:57 p.m.
2025-09-01, 8:21 p.m.
end of day three 2025-09-01, 8:23 p.m.
return to civilisation 2025-09-02, 3:09 p.m.
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