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Episode 164: Nancy East: Mother of 3 and SAR volunteer set a 900 mile FKT

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"I'm a mom to three teenagers and on the verge of turning 50. The fastest I normally travel is in my mini-van shuttling kids around town.  Achieving an FKT as an amateur middle-aged athlete with minimal time to train was a huge stretch of my comfort zone. So adding my name to this roster was one of my proudest and most rewarding moments."

Mount Louis (AB, Canada)

Submitted by Michael Burke on Thu, 11/18/2021 - 11:14am
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Mount Louis is an iconic Canadian Rockies peak.  The easiest way up the mountain is the Kain Route.  At the final headwall, where Kain climbed a chimney, most climbers now go out right and climb the fantastically exposed Perren Crack at 5.7.  Legendary guide Conrad Kain made the FA with Albert MacCarthy in 1916.  Looking back at the mountain from Edith Pass, Kain is reported to have said to MacCarthy "Ye Gods, Mr MacCarthy, just look at that; they never will believe we climbed it."  An excellent history of Mount Louis can be found here:

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