illecillowaet

Updated: May 3, 2025

Over the vast Illecillowaet glacier rosy feather-clouds were floating in a crystal air, beneath a dome of pale blue. Light mists rose from the forests and the course of the river, and above them shone the dazzling snows, the hanging glaciers, and glistening rock faces, ledge piled on ledge, of the Selkirk giants Hermit and Tupper, Avalanche and Sir Donald with that cleft of the pass between.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Lady Merton, Colonist