Climbing Highest Peak Young Ottawa Mountaineer Fights Double By JAMES BELLSHAW A former Ottawa schoolboy one df Canada's youngest mountain guides is now facIng what must be the most treacherous summit of his career. Doctors at Calgary's Holy Cross Hospital last week amputated both feet of 22-year-old John Gow in two separate operations. But this ex-Ashbury student has no intentions of giving up the mountains or ski slopes he has come to know so well. Already he is talking of rehabilitating himself and will soon be fitted with a pair of special orthopedic shoes to help him fulfill his ambitions, Amputation John's brother, Harry, a probation officer here in the capital, told The Journal: "All small aircraft should be fitted with an automatic distress transmitter which stafts signalling immediately the plane is in trouble." Harry Gow said his brother had all the determination and courage of mountaineer. "My wife wanted to visit him at the Calgary hospital," Harry said, but John advised her to wait until he could show her some of the "peaks of the Rockies." Recovering in the Calgary hospital and his spirits* still high, John can say when he gets his new "feet"... these shoes were made for climbing and mean it literally. John survived the April 101 light plane crash in a mountain range northwest of Golden, BC in which his pilot friend, Bernard Royle, was killed. The two men, both residents of the Banff area, had been searching for new slopes on which to operate a ski school. Covering the dead pilot's face with an old piece of cloth, John set off for the town of Golden some 10 miles distant. He was found five days later bleeding and frostbitten on an isolated logging road in the Dogtooth Mountains. In his desperate bid for survival, John had lived on leaves, quenched his thirst on melting snow and even attempted to construct snow shoes with twigs and boot laces. After two days in the Golden General Hospital, John was transferred to Calgary hospital but the frostbite on his feet was so severe doctors were forced to amputate. Reports of the light plane missing in the rugged BC mountains sparked an extensive fiveday air search involving five Canadian Forces planes and 20 civilian aircraft. John's uncle, a member of the armed forces, also joined in the search for the missing aircraft. As the search got under way tracks made by the injured mountaineer were spotted and photographed by searching aircraft. Picture analysis, however, suggested the tracks were those of an animal and the search went on,