Natural feature
Ha Ling Peak Trailhead
Steep switchback trail climbing scree slopes to panoramic Bow Valley and Rockies views.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Ha Ling Peak Trailhead near Canmore, Alberta, centers on Ha Ling, a Chinese cook for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and a fifty-dollar wager laid down in October eighteen ninety-six over how fast he could reach this mountain's summit. It follows what happened when his neighbors refused to believe he had won, and how the peak's name itself became a decades-long argument over honoring him versus mocking him. Listen before you start up the switchbacks, on the same slope he raced that Saturday morning.
This audio guide was created using AI.