Frank S. Smythe—the world’s first professional mountaineer—has two Canadian mountains named after him, one officially and another unofficially. But, chances are, when you Google Mount Smythe, nine times out of 10, you’ll find the one in Jasper National Park, despite it being the unofficial of the two.
That’s just one of the many interesting facts that will be on display at the Jasper-Yellowhead Museum and Archives in “Frank Smythe: The Rockies Revisited”, an exhibit curated by Smythe’s granddaughter, Ruth Bowen.
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