Mount Robson, British Columbia. The 12,972-foot cloud-wreathed summit of Mount Robson dwarfs three backpackers as they approach Berg Lake in Mount Robson Provincial Park in the Canadian province of British Columbia. As the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, Mount Robson was first climbed in 1913 by famed Austrian climber Conrad Kain. Notoriously-unpredictable foul weather thwarts many in their attempts to scale the mountain’s imposing glacier-draped summit. The indigenous people of the area referred to the mountain as Yuh-hai-has-kun; The Mountain of the Spiral Road, perhaps referring to the large glacier which begins on the summit’s north face and wraps around the peak on its west flank.