Glacier Skywalk

Columbia Icefield Glaciers

Parts of the Columbia Icefield and part of other Icefields and glaciers are visible from the Jasper to Banff Icefields Parkway.

The icefield was first reported in 1898 by J. Norman Collie and Hermann Woolley after they had completed the first ascent of Mount Athabasca.

The Athabasca River and the North Saskatchewan River originate in the Columbia Icefield, as do tributary headwaters of the Columbia River. As the icefields are atop a triple Continental Divide, these waters flow north to the Arctic Ocean, east to Hudson Bay (and towards the North Atlantic Ocean), and south and west to the Pacific Ocean. Hudson Bay, in some watershed divisions, is considered to be in the Arctic watershed, in which case this would arguably not be a triple continental divide point.

The Icefields feed Six Major Glaciers:

1. Athabasca Glacier
2. Castleguard Glacier
3. Columbia Glacier
4. Dome Glacier
5. Stutfield Glacier
6. Saskatchewan Glacier

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