In 2017, the year of the 150th anniversary of Canada, she made a first attempt on this mountain with a companion.
They reached the summit plateau but had to turn back path at an altitude of about 5,500 m.
On May 30, 2018 at 2:38 pm, Monique Richard 2nd attempted solo on the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan, from the west side (Kings Trench).

She is the first woman in the world to have reached the top of this mountain solo but did not descend the mountain unassisted due to unfortunate circumstances.
While some media outlets reported her to have soloed Mount Logan, many Alpinists argue that because she required a rescue shortly after reaching the top of the mountain, the solo climb was not completed.

In 2018, a year much less busy than the previous one, very few teams are on the mountain and she is the first climber flown at base camp.
At no point during the expedition that lasted 19 days did another team found themselves in front of her.
The attempted solo climb became a solitary climb.

In the spring of 2018, temperatures are particularly cold in this part of Yukon.
To these conditions are added several hardships; broken equipment, fall into a crevasse, storms, avalanches.

After reaching the summit she required a rescue; she descended and made an unexpected detour of several kilometers that forced her to climb a 300 m sub-summit before finding her way.
That day she covered a distance of 18 km in 14 hours on the summit plateau and found her bivouac around 1:30 am.
The next day, she managed to traverse the summit plateau (a distance of about 8 km) and return to Prospector Col, where, recognizing a deteriorating situation due to weather forecasts, the physical effects of several days of fast ascent from Camp 3, equipment breakdowns and the post-traumatic memories of the tragic events that occurred on Rainier two years before, she made the decision to contact Parks Canada emergency services and request an evacuation.

The evacuation is difficult because Richard is at the operational limit of the aircraft used by the company mandated by Parks Canada for evacuation operations (approximately 5,500 m).
Parks Canada then asked two other climbers who were on the mountain to assist Monique Richard so that she could descend to a lower altitude to be evacuated.
They managed to reach Richard at her bivouac where they found her weak but conscious and assisted her to ski down to camp 4 from where she was evacuated, at an altitude of about 5,200 m. In order to carry out the evacuation, the operations managers had to purchase additional equipment.
The helicopter company has since acquired a new aircraft with a higher operational altitude (an Airbus AS350-B3e Squirrel) which allows it to reach all the upper parts of Mount Logan.
In 2017, the year of the 150th anniversary of Canada, she made a first attempt on this mountain with a companion. They reached the summit plateau but had to turn back path at an altitude of about 5,500 m.
On May 30, 2018 at 2:38 pm, Monique Richard 2nd attempted solo on the highest mountain in Canada, Mount Logan, from the west side (Kings Trench).
She is the first woman in the world to have reached the top of this mountain solo but did not descend the mountain unassisted due to unfortunate circumstances. While some media outlets reported her to have soloed Mount Logan, many Alpinists argue that because she required a rescue shortly after reaching the top of the mountain, the solo climb was not completed.
In 2018, a year much less busy than the previous one, very few teams are on the mountain and she is the first climber flown at base camp. At no point during the expedition that lasted 19 days did another team found themselves in front of her. The attempted solo climb became a solitary climb.
In the spring of 2018, temperatures are particularly cold in this part of Yukon. To these conditions are added several hardships; broken equipment, fall into a crevasse, storms, avalanches.
After reaching the summit she required a rescue; she descended and made an unexpected detour of several kilometers that forced her to climb a 300 m sub-summit before finding her way. That day she covered a distance of 18 km in 14 hours on the summit plateau and found her bivouac around 1:30 am. The next day, she managed to traverse the summit plateau (a distance of about 8 km) and return to Prospector Col, where, recognizing a deteriorating situation due to weather forecasts, the physical effects of several days of fast ascent from Camp 3, equipment breakdowns and the post-traumatic memories of the tragic events that occurred on Rainier two years before, she made the decision to contact Parks Canada emergency services and request an evacuation.
The evacuation is difficult because Richard is at the operational limit of the aircraft used by the company mandated by Parks Canada for evacuation operations (approximately 5,500 m). Parks Canada then asked two other climbers who were on the mountain to assist Monique Richard so that she could descend to a lower altitude to be evacuated. They managed to reach Richard at her bivouac where they found her weak but conscious and assisted her to ski down to camp 4 from where she was evacuated, at an altitude of about 5,200 m. In order to carry out the evacuation, the operations managers had to purchase additional equipment. The helicopter company has since acquired a new aircraft with a higher operational altitude (an Airbus AS350-B3e Squirrel) which allows it to reach all the upper parts of Mount Logan.
Monique Richard (alpinist)