Tourist attraction
Columbia Icefield Skywalk
Curved glass-floored observation deck cantilevered above a glacier-carved valley.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Columbia Icefield Skywalk near Jasper turns on a summit crossed by chance in eighteen ninety-eight, when climbers Norman Collie and Hermann Woolley found ice where their map promised only rock. It follows that first encounter into the engineering behind the glass deck now cantilevered over the same valley, and into what the Columbia Icefield's outlet glaciers below have been doing to their own edges ever since. Watch for the retreat markers along the parkway as you head back down.
This audio guide was created using AI.