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Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canadian Rockies · Canada
Mount Athabasca
Mount Athabasca is the most climbed of the great Columbia Icefield peaks, its glaciated flanks rising directly above the Icefields Parkway and offering one of the shortest approaches to a genuine glacier mountaineering objective in the Canadian Rockies. The North Glacier/AA Col normal route is a moderate but serious snow-and-ice outing across crevassed terrain, making it a common training and guided objective for climbers building toward bigger Rockies routes. First climbed in 1898 by J. Norman Collie during the exploratory expedition that opened up the Columbia Icefield to mountaineering, the peak sits at a striking hydrological triple point, shedding meltwater toward the Pacific, Arctic, and Hudson Bay watersheds. Its summit ridge, capped by the distinctive snow horn known as the Silverhorn, gives sweeping views across the icefield to Mount Columbia and Snow Dome.
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