From the archives, we give a super cool story from KMC Issue #9. Author Rob Buchanan takes us on a fascinating journey into the birth of North American mountain sport, which happened right here in the Kootenays, when two wandering priests decided to set forth in the vast alpine wilderness of the Selkirk Mountains. Click the photo to download the story pdf.

Mitchell Scott
Mitchell Scott is the longtime Editor-in-Chief and co-publisher of both Kootenay Mountain Culture and Coast Mountain Culture Magazines. He's been in the writing/publishing/media business for over 20 years and currently lives in Nelson, BC where he tries to keep up with his two teenage sons with aching futility.
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