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The Lions

A couple stands on the snow slopes of the North Shore Mountains next to tall evergreen trees looking away from the camera to the two snowy peaks behind named the Lions.

Photo by Walter Alfred Don Munday; Source: WikiMedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Lions_(HS85-10-38847).jpg); Date: 1921.

W. A. Don and Phyllis Munday, prolific explorers of the Coast Mountains from the 1920 to 1950, recorded a number of first ascents in the Coast Mountains. The Lions are two peaks that sit behind the North Shore Mountains and are visible from the city of Vancouver.