With its massive glaciers and miles of virgin powder, the Wapta Icefield, in the Canadian Rockies, is the ultimate training ground for a rookie ski-mountaineer. Skip to Main Content.

Hidden between towering peaks and surprisingly uncrowded, this wolf-shaped lake with crystal-clear waters rivals some of Canada's most famous destinations.

Calgary - A B.C. skier who fell into a crevasse on the Wapta Icefield near Lake Louise last week remains missing after blizzard conditions kept rescuers grounded through the weekend.

To get there, take the Icefields Parkway between Banff and Jasper. ... Ski the Wapta Traverse. A skier moves across a frozen lake along the Wapta Traverse in Alberta, Canada.

Sunset, Wapta Icefield. The name “Yoho” means “awe and wonder” in the Cree language. And Yoho National Park in the Canadian Rockies certainly lives up to the billing, ...

Present. Peaceful. I didn’t expect to feel either of these things while traversing the Wapta Ice cap, high in the alpine just west of the Icefields Parkway in Banff… ...

Park wardens have recovered the bodies of two skiers who suffocated when their snow cave collapsedin the backcountry of Alberta's Wapta Icefields earlier this month. Claire Dixon, 27, andCornelius ...

The Wapta icefield is the source of the Bow glacier and river. Article content He looked at figures from June 25 through July 4, and compared it with temperatures for the same interval over the ...

Parks Canada's Ian Jackson slings down to the area of the Wapta Icefield on March 17 in an attempt to approach the crevasse where Mark Taylor, Abbotsford parks manager, went missing Tuesday.