Natural feature
Sentinel Pass
Alpine saddle beneath a rock spire, linking larch meadows to a valley of glacier peaks.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Sentinel Pass, above Lake Louise in Banff National Park, follows two acts of naming: the Grand Sentinel, the rock spire on Pinnacle Mountain that gives the pass its name, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks below it, numbered in the Stoney language by a young Yale-educated explorer named Samuel Allen in eighteen ninety-four. It traces what became of Allen after his final climbing season in this country, in eighteen ninety-five. Best heard looking both directions from the saddle, toward Paradise Valley and toward Moraine Lake.
This audio guide was created using AI.