Columbia Icefield

COLUMBIA ICEFIELD, 225 sq km, is an immense ice cap straddling the BC–Alberta border south of Jasper on the Icefields Parkway. It is composed of a central névé of snow and ice up to 365 m thick, from which glaciers radiate into the surrounding valleys. The icefield was located in 1898 by British MOUNTAINEERS Norman Collie and Hermann Wooley. The highest mountain in the region, Mt Columbia, was first climbed on 19 July 1902 by James Outram and his Swiss guide Christian Kaufmann. Snowdome...

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