Plain of Six Glaciers Teahouse

About this audio guide

This guide to the Plain of Six Glaciers Teahouse near Lake Louise follows Mary Vaux Walcott, a Philadelphia botanist with no scientific training, who spent nearly three decades photographing Victoria Glacier from a fixed iron marker in the rock. Alongside her brothers George and William, she turned patient repetition into one of Canada's earliest formal studies of a glacier. It touches on the teahouse's own no-road, no-electricity supply routine, still run by horse and by hand today.