Famous Rockies WI6 Virtual Reality Forms
The steep route is one of many that's come in so far this season in the area
One of the most famous WI6 routes in the Canadian Rockies seems to be formed. Virtual Reality was first climbed in the early 1990s by Joe Josephson and Ken Wylie next to the classic Murchison Falls WI4+ on the Icefields Parkway.
On the Rockies Ice and Mixed Conditions Facebook page, a climber uploaded a photo of the demanding test-piece on Nov. 19 showing it in relatively fat early-season shape. The four-pitch route breaks down to a 60-metre WI4, 35-metre WI5, 40-metre WI6 and a 30-metre WI3+.
Murchison Falls and Virtual Reality are two routes that are included in the Ice Climbing Atlas, which looks at avalanche hazards around famous climbs – learn more about it here. And always check avalanche conditions before going ice climbing here.
Virtual Reality was famously featured on the cover on the Rockies Ice guidebook by Josephson, see it and other Virtual Reality media below. Murchison Falls is one of 50 routes found in a book about the classic 50 ice routes in western Canada – find it here.
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