"Across the valley from our camp a fine-looking peak stood out conspicuously. On a small scale the peak resembles one on the Blaeberry River, near its junction with the Columbia, named Mount Laussedat, after Colonel Ami Laussedat, a French scientist who first brought to notice the uses of photography in mountain surveying. The station is here referred to as 'The Colonel.' It is a very commanding peak and the view from its summit will repay the climb, which is nowhere difficult. It was a wondrous sight-seas of peaks does not express the oceans of peaks rising high in every direction. The immensity of the view is astonishing -the immeasurable chaos of it all!" -Arthur Wheeler, 1911