Natural feature
Lake Louise
Turquoise glacial lake framed by peaks, its shore lined with a grand mountain hotel.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Lake Louise in Banff National Park follows one death in eighteen ninety-six that changed how these mountains were climbed, when an American lawyer named Philip Abbot fell from Mount Lefroy within sight of the lake. It traces how the Canadian Pacific Railway responded by bringing Swiss mountain guides to work here starting in eighteen ninety-nine, and the shelter two of those guides later built at the pass that now carries Abbot's name. Listen for the glacier route above the far shore the guides once used to haul their materials.
This audio guide was created using AI.