Lake Louise Summer Gondola

About this audio guide

This guide to the Lake Louise Summer Gondola in Banff National Park follows the valley's most famous grizzly, Bear one twenty-two, known locally as the Boss, whose territory stretches across the wildlife corridor beneath the lift. It traces how tourists, photographers and even a children's book have turned him into something like a celebrity, and sets that against the Stoney Nakoda's older tradition of treating grizzlies as guardians owed distance rather than attention. Listen for what each side is really protecting.