This 28-year-old learned to climb mountains in Alberta. Now he has climbed almost 1,200 peaks
CBC
It only took four years of living in Alberta to get Steven Song hooked on climbing mountains.
In the last decade, he has climbed almost 1,200 different mountains from Alaska to South America. The University of Alberta chemical engineering graduate started climbing peaks as a teenager, not long after immigrating to Canada from China.
"I like the views," he said.
His first was Cirque Peak in Banff National Park as a teenager. He said the trip was exhausting and by the day's end, he had large blisters on his feet.
Regardless, he was addicted.
"You look at the map and there are other peaks, so you do another, and another," said Song on CBC Edmonton's Radio Active.
Completing the peaks last year, Song is one of the youngest to have climbed all of the 11,000ers, which are a group of 58 mountains in the Canadian Rockies above 11,000 feet (3353 metres).