Tourist attraction
Wilcox Trail Red Chair viewpoint
Twin red chairs framing glacier and icefield views from a historic alpine mountain pass.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Red Chairs at Wilcox Pass, near Banff, follows Walter Wilcox, a Yale-educated climber who spent the eighteen nineties naming and first-summiting corners of the Canadian Rockies far to the south. It traces how his reputation, rather than his own boots, ended up attached to a mountain and pass he may never have crossed, and the Scottish climber who put his name there. Along the way it touches the older, practical reason travelers used this same gap in the ridge long before either man arrived.
This audio guide was created using AI.