Natural feature
The Beehive
Beehive-shaped rocky summit above a turquoise lake, first scaled and mapped by a teenage explorer.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Beehive above Lake Louise in Banff follows Samuel Allen, a Philadelphia teenager who made the summit's first recorded ascent in eighteen ninety-one and returned three years later with a self-styled band of Yale classmates to survey the valley below. You'll hear how he took compass and barometer readings from these ridges, sounded the lake's depth, and borrowed Stoney numerals to name peaks now towering over Moraine Lake. Best heard looking north toward that row of summits he once mapped by hand.
This audio guide was created using AI.