The Ice Explorer tours depart from the Columbia Icefield Discovery Centre, about 65 miles south of downtown Jasper, where travelers can park for free. Tours of the Athabasca Glacier are available ...

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks that open in glaciers where the ice begins to flow faster. They can grow to more than 300 feet wide, thousands of feet long and hundreds of feet deep.

Buried within the permafrost, researchers believe this is the oldest glacier ice ever found in the Arctic. The glacier piece became visible after 2009 landslides in the area. Researchers were ...

With Maligne Canyon and other areas closed due to the Jasper wildfire, the national park has fewer natural ice climbing opportunities this winter. Rockaboo Mountain Adventures has made up for this ...

Beautiful Lake Louise, surrounded by the snowy mountains and the massive Victoria Glacier, is a dream skating ... accessible via the scenic Trans-Canada Highway. Visitors can also take shuttle ...

Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures or cracks that open in glaciers where ice begins to flow faster. The researchers say that crevasses are also getting bigger and deeper where ice is flowing ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If you plan to drive the Icefields Parkway, consider purchasing a one-year Discovery Pass, which covers entry to every national park in Canada, including Jasper National ...

71.1 x 96.5 cm. (28 x 38 in.) ...

Covering nearly 10% of Earth's surface, glaciers and ice sheets are integral to the Earth's climate system, storing 70% of the planet’s freshwater, and glacier-fed lakes are home to a third of ...

Canada Goose, the Toronto-based luxury outerwear brand, first entered the footwear category in 2021 — launching a collection of boots. Included in its offering is the Glacier Trail Sneaker, a ...

Scientists discovered that temperate glacier ice flows differently than previously thought, requiring a change in Glen’s flow law’s stress exponent from 3 or 4 to 1.0. This adjustment suggests that ...