Human History
To the Squamish, the local indigenous people of this territory, the mountain is called t'ak'takmu'yin tl'a in7in'a'xe7en. In their language it means "Landing Place of the Thunderbird". This name of the mountain refers to the legendary Thunderbird, a creature in North American indigenous peoples' history and culture. Like Black Tusk further south, the rock was said to have been burnt black by the Thunderbird's lightning. This mountain, like others located in the area, is considered sacred because it plays an important part in their history.
The first recorded ascent of Mount Cayley was made by the mountaineers E.C. Brooks, W.G. Wheatley, B.Clegg, R.E. Knight, and Tom Fyles in 1928. During this time, the party named the volcano after the late Beverley Cochrane Cayley, who was an ardent mountaineer of the executive committees of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club and the Vancouver section of the Alpine Club for several years. Beverley Cayley was a friend of those in the climbing party, and died on June 8, 1928 at the age of 29 in Vancouver. Photographs of Mount Cayley were published in the Canadian Alpine Journal Vol XX in 1931.
Read more about this topic: Mount Cayley
Famous quotes containing the words human and/or history:
“With a generous endowment of motherhood provided by legislation, with all laws against voluntary motherhood and education in its methods repealed, with the feminist ideal of education accepted in home and school, and with all special barriers removed in every field of human activity, there is no reason why woman should not become almost a human thing. It will be time enough then to consider whether she has a soul.”
—Crystal Eastman (1881–1928)
“Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the “anticipation of Nature.””
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)