Athabasca Glacier

The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six foremost 'toes' of the Columbia Icefield, situated in the Canadian Rockies. The ice sheet as of now subsides at a rate of around 5 meters 16 ft per year and has retreated in excess of 1.5 km 0.93 mi and lost over portion of its volume in the previous 125 years. Effectively available, it is the most gone to ice sheet in North America.

The main edge of the icy mass is inside simple strolling separation; nonetheless, travel onto the icy mass isn't suggested unless appropriately prepared. Concealed precipices have prompted the passings of ill-equipped tourists. The Icefield Interpretive Center, shut amid the winter mid-October to mid-April, remains opposite the ice sheet.

It is utilized as a hotel and for ticket deals for touring on the icy mass. Standard transports transport visitors to the icy mass edge, where they board extraordinarily composed snow mentors for transport over the precarious evaluations, snow and ice part far up the icy mass.